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In Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner tells of an aging spinster's struggle to break away from her controlling family - a classic story that she treats with cool feminist intelligence, while adding a dimension of the supernatural and strange. Warner is one of the outstanding and indispensable mavericks of 20th-century literature, a writer to set beside Djuna Barnes and Jane Bowles, with a subversive genius that anticipates the fantastic flights of such contemporaries as Angela Carter and Jeanette Winterson.

Lo scrittore Adam Grant, scopre un antico manoscritto legato a una stirpe di licantropi. Quando il suo amico Pierre Garnier muore in circostanze sospette, emergono segreti che rivelano una connessione tra il manoscritto e un potere oscuro del passato. Grant, trascinato in un mondo di creature soprannaturali, dovrà affrontare forze oscure per fermare una minaccia che rischia di far precipitare il mondo nell’oblio. I classici dell’orrore, riediti in chiave moderna e raccontati con musiche e suoni.

When a haunted chess set causes consternation at the British Chess Championships, and a horse magically materialises in Kettering Agricultural Museum, MI:13 are called to investigate. Harry Crow (David Warner) and Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) follow the trail of inexplicable happenings to an unremarkable terraced house in South Wales, home to the mysterious Mr Merriman (David Benson). He's very old, and very mad; but is there more to Merriman than first appears?