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En støvet, sort, næsten forhistorisk kakerlak – det er hvad skulptøren G.H. møder, da hun åbner sin stuepiges garderobeskab. Hun smækker straks skabsdøren i – men en uimodståelig fascination er vakt. Mødet med kakerlakken åbner døren til hidtil lukkede rum, til en spirituel krise, og stiller spørgsmålstegn ved selve G.H.s identitet og placering i universet.

Julita przez wiele lat nosi maskę szczęśliwej żony i matki. Wierzy, że jej poświęcenie wystarczy do zbudowania trwałego małżeństwa oraz pełnej miłości rodziny. Elżbieta, bezdzietna, żyjąca samotnie lekarka, boryka się z myślami, które w jej głowie urastają do rangi problemu niepozwalającego cieszyć się z codzienności. Życiowe blokady przyjaciółek są efektem podjętych w młodości decyzji... "Bluszcz" to powieść inna niż wszystkie. Anna H. Niemczynow porusza zakamarki duszy, które człowiek pragnie ukryć nawet przed samym sobą.

Frederik, der er søn af en dansk soldat og en lokal kvinde, kommer til verden på Guldkysten, på den tid da Danmark havde kolonier i Afrika og Vestindien. Han er en begavet dreng, og han bliver adopteret af den danske præst på fortet Christiansborg, der tager ham med til Danmark. Trods universitetsstudier og danske kærester falder Frederik aldrig rigtigt til, og han kommer til at leve hele sit liv splittet mellem sine to kulturer. H.E. Sørensen (f. 1940) har skrevet en lang række bøger om rejser, samfund og historie, og især Sønderjylland, hvor forfatteren selv har hjemme, har fået en st

Certain Personal Matters is an 1897 collection of essays selected by H. G. Wells from among the many short essays and ephemeral pieces he had written since 1893. The book consists of thirty-nine pieces ranging from about eight hundred to two thousand words in length. The essays in Certain Personal Matters rely on stock characters that Wells developed in his early days as a writer. This vein was inspired by his reading of When a Man's Single, an 1888 novel by J.M.

In the days of the Comet in 1906 is a science fiction novel by H. G. Wells in which humanity is exalted when a comet causes the nitrogen of the air, the old azote, to change out of itself and become a respirable gas, differing indeed from oxygen, but helping and sustaining its action, a bath of strength and healing for nerve and brain. The result The great Change has come for evermore, happiness and beauty are our atmosphere, there is peace on earth and good will to all men.

Das Meisterwerk des kühnen englischen Romanciers ist einer urtypischen Situation gewidmet: der Liebe zwischen Mutter und Sohn...

Jeg er pedant. Det er en vigtig egenskab for en korrekturlaeser. En krakiler. Jeg finder andre menneskers fejl. Og slår hårdt ned på dem. Og nyder det. Ja, jeg saetter en aere i at påpege og rette fejl. Jeg holder af den røde tusch, der bryder den ellers uantastelige, sorte sats. Jeg har øje for inkonsekvenser og uregelmaessigheder. Sådan skal en god korrekturlaeser vaere. Pernittengryn, småtskåren og retskaffen. Jeg er en sadist, siger min eks. Søn af en revisor.

Die junge, elternlose Nina Plisson weiß nicht, was aus ihrer Mutter geworden ist, auch nicht, wer ihr Vater war. Wissen andere in ihrer kleinen Heimatstadt Kall mehr? Was wird ihr vorenthalten. Nachdem das vereinsamte und widerspenstige Mädchen lange Zeit große Schwierigkeiten hatte, lesen und schreiben zu erlernen, wird sie sich, angeleitet von der pensionierten Lehrerin Sophia Molitor, grundlegend verändern. Sie beginnt Erinnerungen aus ihrer frühen Kindheit aufzuschreiben.

The Shadow out of Time is a novella by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written between November 1934 and February 1935, it was first published in the June 1936 issue of Astounding Stories. The Shadow out of Time indirectly tells of the Great Race of Yith, an extraterrestrial species with the ability to travel through space and time. The Yithians accomplish this by switching bodies with hosts from the intended spatial or temporal destination.

Den niårige Bruno bor i Berlin under anden verdenskrig. Bruno ved ikke meget om krigen og lever i lykkelig uvidenhed, selvom hans far er højtrangerende soldat tæt på Hitler. En dag får familien en vigtig gæst, da "Fyren" kommer til middag. Brunos far bliver forfremmet, og hele familien må forlade Berlin og flyttet til en lejr, som Bruno kalder "Afsides". I "Afsides" er alting anderledes. Fra sit værelse kan Bruno se en indhegning med en masse mennesker, som alle går i ens stribede pyjamasser.

"The Dreams in the Witch House" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle. Written in January/February 1932, it was first published in the July 1933 issue of Weird Tales. Walter Gilman, a student of mathematics and folklore at Miskatonic University, rents an attic room in the "Witch House", a house in Arkham, Massachusetts that is rumored to be cursed. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, an accused witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692.

"The Colour Out of Space" is a science fiction/horror short story by American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1927. In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of the fictional town of Arkham, Massachusetts.

"A Dream of Armageddon" is a short story by H. G. Wells which was first published in 1901 in the British weekly magazine Black and White. The story opens aboard a train, when an unwell-looking man strikes up a conversation with the narrator when he sees him reading a book about dreams. The white-faced man says that he has little time for dream analysis because, he says, his dreams are killing him.

H. G. Wells's short story "The Door in the Wall" was first published in 1911. The conflict between science and imagination is the major theme of the story, which was enormously popular when it first appeared. "The Door in the Wall" is considered by both readers and critics to be Wells's finest short story.

"The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. The story's narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of various notes left behind by his great uncle, George Gammell Angell, a prominent Professor of Semitic languages at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who died during the winter of 1926 after being "jostled by a nautical-looking negro".

Frankreich, nahe der spanischen Grenze. Eine Frau folgt einer Einladung der Freundin in eine ihr fremde Welt, deren Leben zunächst ereignislos erscheint...

"From Beyond" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written in 1920 and was first published in The Fantasy Fan in June 1934 (Vol. 1, No. 10). The story is told from the first-person perspective of an unnamed narrator and details his experiences with a scientist named Crawford Tillinghast. Tillinghast creates an electronic device that emits a resonance wave, which stimulates an affected person's pineal gland, thereby allowing them to perceive planes of existence outside the scope of accepted reality.

"The Crystal Egg" is a science fiction short story written by H. G. Wells in 1897. - The story tells of a shop owner, named Mr. Cave, who finds a strange crystal egg that serves as a window into the planet Mars. - The story was written the same year in which Wells was serializing "The War of the Worlds" in Pearson's Magazine, a year before it was published as a novel.

"The White Ship" is a horror short story by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was first published in The United Amateur (Volume 19), November 1919, and later appeared in the March 1927 issue of Weird Tales. Basil Elton, a lighthouse keeper, engages in a peculiar fantasy in which a bearded man in robes is piloting a mystical white ship which appears when the moon is full.

"Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" is a short story in the horror fiction genre, written by American author H. P. Lovecraft in 1920. The themes of the story are tainted ancestry, knowledge that it would be best to remain unaware of, and a reality which human understanding finds intolerable. The story begins by describing the ancestors of Sir Arthur Jermyn, a British nobleman.