Åbo Akademis bibliotek

The Room in the Dragon Volant is a gothic mystery novel by J Sheridan Le Fanu. Word was the hotel -- the Dragon Volant -- was haunted. Worse yet, Richard Beckett had taken lodging ...

The Evil Guest is a gothic mystery novel by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Le Fanu’s inimitable style continues with The Evil Guest, a murder mystery fraught with dark imagery and mysterious ...

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel, published in 1902. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate ...

Satan's Diary is a novel by Russian author Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, an acclaimed Russian playwright and writer of short fiction, who was noted for the darkness in his work. Sa ...

The Gray Phantom is a detective novel by American author Herman Landon. A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening duri ...

Gargoyles is a novel by Academy Award winner, American screenwriter Ben Hecht. The author, Ben Hecht, was a prolific writer as well as a renowned screenwriter, producer, and direct ...

Against The Grain, or Against Nature is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. “THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epig ...

Tina Craig är gift med en våldsam man. Varje ledig timme hon har försöker hon arbeta för att samla ihop tillräckligt med pengar för att en dag lämna honom. För att helt kunna undvi ...

”Varje år var det likadant, samma gester, samma scener i landskapet, och glädjen över att ses igen, med de givna rollerna, och den gemensamma önskan att allt skulle vara lyckat. Me ...

I den tredje, helt fristående, delen i serien är bröderna Nalle och Niklas är på väg till morfar Sture. Han bor mitt ute på landet i en stuga. Först är det tåg, sen är det buss. In ...

The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a final denouement ...

The Hill of Dreams is a supernatural novel written by Welsh author Arthur Machen.  The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in ru ...

"makalöst bra"Expressen söndagTio år har gått sedan Abby Williams senast besökte sin hemstad. Hon har försökt lämna allt som hände där bakom sig. Nu bor hon i Chicago och har en fr ...

Öppna grinden till en värld där vad som helst kan hända ...Trött på sin grå vardag har Sofia sagt upp sig för att göra något hon alltid längtat efter; rusta upp Svartsjö slottspark ...

The Five Jars is the only novel written by English author M. R. James, who is best known for his ghost stories.  The Five Jars is a peculiarly surreal fantasy originally written fo ...

Erik växer upp i ett litet samhälle, i skuggan av andra världskriget. Astrid önskar sig, mer än något annat, ett barn. Båda möter de ondskan. Astrid stod där medan hennes flämtande ...

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop is a mystery novel by American author Fergus Hume. Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge ...

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. “On the twenty-seventh day of July, at the hour of twenty minutes to two o'clock in the morning, a ...

Red Money is a mystery novel by American author Fergus Hume. Murder occurs at an English country estate following the arrival of a caravan of Gypsies temporarily camping on the gro ...

På en fest träffas Leo och Ben. Leo blir förälskad och de börjar att umgås. Men är det som Leo känner tillräckligt? Han ser inte sig själv som en bög och känner sig inte hemma i Be ...

The Lady from Nowhere is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detect ...

The Opal Serpent is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beaut ...

The Markets of Paris also known under the title The Belly of Paris, is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola cal ...

Jean Gourdon's Four Days is a short novel by French author Émile Zola. Jean Gourdon's Four Days deserves to rank among the very best things to which Zola has signed his name. It is ...

The Fortune of the Rougons (“La Fortune des Rougon”), originally published in 1871, is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The Fortune of the Rougons is the first novel in Émile Z ...