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Enter the world of the Pendleton: The original owner became a recluse - and was rumored to be more than half mad - after his wife and two children were kidnapped in 1896 and never found. The second owner suffered a worse tragedy in 1935, when his house manager murdered him, his family, and the entire live-in staff.... Craftsmen and laborers working on renovations disappear or go mad.... For years, the Pendleton is a happy place, until a bad turn comes again.... Voices in unknown languages are heard in deserted rooms....

John Tyler has gone rogue, pursuing an international vendetta against those responsible for killing his brother. But he's lured back by the CIA for one final mission. Simple, for a man like Tyler: journey to an old Soviet-era hotel in the frozen wastes of Siberia to obtain information from a Russian scientist about a double agent within NATO. But strange things are afoot, events related to the hotel's grisly past and the KGB's Cold war experiments into psychic phenomena.

Une comédie déjantée, où l’inattendu rencontre l’humour à chaque page! Je m'appelle Damien Hachett : 34 ans, légiste, catapulté médecin chef à l'Institut Médico-Judiciaire. Tard le soir, entre deux macchabées carbonisés ou livrés coupés en morceaux dans un joli paquet cadeau, j'écris des bouquins. Jusqu'à ce qu'une nuit, mon plus vieux lecteur atterrisse sur ma table d'autopsie. Et maintenant... que les ennuis commencent !

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 20 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Das Feuer von Asshurbanipal" von Robert E. Howard, "Das Ding auf der Schwelle" von H.P. Lovecraft, "Lodoiska" von Theodor Hildebrand und "Der Zombie" von Henry S. Whitehead.

Karin Müller of the German Democratic Republic's People's Police is called to a factory in the east of the country. A man has been murdered - bound and trapped as a fire burned nearby, slowly suffocating him. Could his murderer simply be someone with a grudge against the factory's nationalisation, as Müller's Stasi colleagues insist? Why too is her deputy Werner Tilsner behaving so strangely? As more victims surface, it becomes clear that there is a cold-blooded killer out there taking their revenge.

If you thought fiction couldn't get darker then think again. Nineteen Seventy Seven, the second instalment of the Red Riding Quartet, is one long nightmare.Its heroes - the half decent copper Bob Fraser and the burnt-out hack Jack Whitehead - would be considered villains in most people's books.

"When I was 16, Helen Fleischman assigned me to memorize Shakespeare's Sonnet No. 29, 'When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes, I all alone beweep my outcast state', for English class. And 50 years later, that poem is still in my head. Algebra got washed away, and geometry and most of biology, but those lines about the redemptive power of love in the face of shame are still here behind my eyeballs, more permanent than my own teeth." --Garrison Keillor

Unit 77 is a cyborg...but he used to be so much more. Tortured by glimpses of his past, former Captain Andrew Fischer goes through his days in a metallic nightmare, feeling broken inside though he doesn't know why. Doctor Claudia Chambers is distraught. After a land mine blew up Drew Fischer and his unit of elite Space Corps Marines, she was forced to implant the CyBRG device in all of them which turned the men into machines. But she keeps catching glimpses of humanity from the supposedly inhuman Captain...could it be that part of Drew is still in there, longing to get out?

In 1974, long-time radio producer Himan Brown convinced CBS to green-light a new anthology of radio dramas, CBS Radio Mystery Theater (CBSRMT). The show was pitched as appealing to an audience that had grown up during the Golden Age of Radio Drama, and it was hoped that it would attract younger listeners as well. This collection is volume 9, featuring 1976-77 shows.

In einer immer schnelllebigeren Welt geprägt von Gesellschaften mit stetig wachsendem Leistungsdruck ist es für unser Wohlbefinden das Beste, auch mal einen Schritt zurück zu tun und uns zu fragen, was wir eigentlich vom Leben erwarten und was uns wirklich glücklich macht. Meistens liegt die Antwort des Glücks in einem selbst und nicht in der Umgebung. Dafür muss der Mensch allerdings alles vergessen und loslassen, was er bisher gelernt sowie gehört hat. Das ist wahrscheinlich der schwerste Teil daran, eine neue Perspektive anzunehmen.

大病後めっきり弱くなられた紫の上は、出家が叶わず、せめてもと法華経千部を供養しました。しかし、夏の暑さで衰弱が進み、親しい人々にご遺言なさいます。やがて秋、祈祷もむなしくこの世を去りました。源氏の院は自らをなだめ、どうにか葬送を済まされますが、そのあとはもう何の分別もつかなくなるほど打ちひしがれてしまいました。

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銭形の親分。ガラッ八。聞いたことないという日本人はおられまいと思えます。貴顕紳士も夢中になった銭形を、絶品の語り口でお楽しみください――。「この様子じゃ、もう一度入るかもわかりませんよ」盗賊にやられた家を一と通り見た上で、平次はこんな不気味なことを言うのでした。ギョッとして泊まりこみを頼む中江川平太夫に、平次は八五郎を推しました…　　監督/吉田純子・編集/三好達也_林岳史

Compassion is a luxury in a brutal land where life is cheap, but Dr. Mildred Wyeth holds fast to her physician's oath to show mercy. Now she's stricken by a plague that brings on a deep craving for human flesh. Unwilling to lose one of their own to this pervasive pestilence without a fight, the companions follow the trail to Cajun country, where the mysterious queen of the Cannies is rumored to possess the only antidote to the grim fate that awaits Mildred...and perhaps her warrior friends.

Generationen lasen begeistert die Abenteuer der beiden Weltenbummler Rolf Torring und Hans Warren. Die Serie erschien von 1930 bis 1939 in 445 Heften im Verlag Neues Verlagshaus für Volksliteratur GmbH, Berlin, und noch einmal von 1950 bis 1960 in 273 Heftausgaben zunächst im nun in Bad Pyrmont angesiedelten Verlagshaus, später in Lizenz bei Pabel, Rastatt. Wie Peter Wanjek in seiner grundlegenden Arbeit "Rolf Torrings Abenteuer".