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Marion Kracht ("Schlaf", "Ein Sommer in Schottland", "Dr. Klein" etc.) berichtet mit einem Augenzwinkern von ihren Erlebnissen landauf, landab als Vegetarierin. Sie hat für dieses Hörbuch die Geschichten aus ihrem Kochbuch "Kracht kocht weiter" aufgenommen, die sie während der letzten 25 Jahre auch tatsächlich so erlebt hat. Ihr Autorenhonorar für dieses Hörbuch geht an Mädchenprojekte von PLAN International. Unterstützt wird sie dabei von den Autoren, deren Geschichten sie hier liest. Danke dafür!

„Ich liebte Spiegel schon als Kind. Diese seitenverkehrte, von mir getrennte Welt, die ich nicht berühren konnte, reizte mich, lockte mich wie ein Abgrund, ein Geheimnis.“ Letztes Jahr hat in Barcelona eine Gitanofrau mit goldenen Eckzähnen auf der Abbruchstelle der alten Polizeistation von Barri Xino, westlich der La Rambla, Dokumenten gefunden. Wenig später waren die Papiere im Besitz eines Antiquariats. Unter bürokratischem Krimskrams und den Berichten über die gerade gegründete Kataionische Arbeiterbewegung „Solidaridad Obreraa“ befand sich ein privat gehaltenes Schreiben von 1903, gerichtet an den alleinstehenden, einfachen Polizisten Eduardo R.

Before Jack Kerouac expressed the spirit of a generation in his 1957 classic On the Road, he spent years figuring out how he wanted to live and, above all, learning how to write. Atop an Underwood brings together more than sixty previously unpublished works that Kerouac wrote before he was twenty-two, ranging from stories and poems to plays and parts of novels, including an excerpt from his 1943 merchant marine novel, The Sea Is My Brother. These writings reveal what Kerouac was thinking, doing, and dreaming during his formative years and reflect his primary literary influences.

Francis Marion Crawford, an only child, was born on 2nd August 1854 at Bagni di Lucca, Italy. He was a nephew to Julia Ward Howe, the American poet and writer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic". Crawford was educated at St Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire, and then on to Cambridge University, the University of Heidelberg and the University of Rome. In 1879, he went to India, to study Sanskrit and then to edit The Indian Herald. In 1881, he returned to America to continue his Sanskrit studies at Harvard University.

The Screaming Skull is one of F. Marion Crawford's Uncanny Tales, which was first published, posthumously, in London in 1911 and was issued two weeks later in America as Wandering Ghosts.

Sir Hugh takes his secret to the grave with a vicious grin on his lips–a devious grin that is somehow contagious.

On the death of a cruel man, the terms of a secret are demanded from him to no avail. When the facts are finally revealed his true evil has changed everything.

The story takes place aboard a transatlantic ocean liner. A passenger named Brisbane is puzzled when the steward behaves oddly while taking his luggage to his stateroom, number 105. In the middle of the first night, Brisbane is further perplexed when his roommate suddenly leaps down from the upper berth and runs out of the cabin. In the morning, Brisbane learns that his roommate has gone overboard - and was the fourth consecutive occupant of the same upper berth to do so.