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B. J. Harrison does not tire of the adventurous and mysterious settings in his choice of narratives. This time, the horror element is a bit subdued, though Edgar Allan Poe makes up ...

A kaleidoscope of genres, themes, topics, and motifs await the listener here. From comedy and mystery, to horror and children’s stories, Season Four abounds in fairy tales adventur ...

Emilia Berg brottas med varannan vecka-livet på hemmaplan och storpolitiken i Riksdagen. Livspusslet blir inte enklare när hon av en slump upptäcker att hennes barndomsvän Josefine ...

Leon, ägare till det halvkriminella företaget Ghettosäljarna, tar ett uppdrag han egentligen inte vill ha. Att hitta den försvunna miljonärsdottern Julia Falk. Istället kommer han ...

Göteborgspolisen är hårt pressad efter den senaste tidens skjutningar. Kriminalkommissarie Martin Malm är dock långt bort ifrån händelsernas centrum. Tidigare var hans jobb att lir ...

Tänk dig att du är lyckligt nygift och bor i ett fint område utanför New York. Du har precis lagat middag och väntar på att din man ska komma hem. I nästa stund vaknar du upp på sj ...

Privatdeckaren Sam Lindwalls uppdrag för försäkringsjätten Säkra är att på ett diskret sätt kolla upp konkurrenternas strategi på den svenska marknaden. Och Sam är diskret. Och skr ...

En av världens främsta deckarförfattare är tillbaka med en ny efterlängtad bok om kriminalintendent Roy Grace På Gatwicks flygplats utanför London står en man och väntar på sitt li ...

From the books that inspired the new Netflix series "Lupin" with Omar Sy.Fifty thousand francs are stolen from Nicolas Dugrival’s jacket and Arsène Lupin is the main suspect. When ...

The book that inspired the new Netflix series, "Lupin" with Omar Sy."The Extraordinary Adventures of Arsene Lupin, Gentleman Burglar" is the first collection of stories about the i ...

B. J. Harrison reads two late 19th-century science fiction classics by H. G. Wells. 'The Time Machine,' an ultimate classic, introduced the term 'time machine' as we now know it. A ...

"King" Wallace is a lion-tamer, who has been viciously murdered by a man who hated him. Now everyone wants to know who the murderer is. The "Leopard Man" is a leopard trainer with ...

In this story, John Buchan explores Africa together with his friend Lawson. During their expedition, they find an astonishing place and they decide to settle there. But after a whi ...

What will happen if you hear the bell of St. Sépulcre? According to the local small town folks, dangers and even death may follow. When a stranger enters the town, he is warned by ...

Fettes and his friends meet for a drink at the local inn. Everything is going well until the famous doctor Wolfe Macfarlane enters to treat a sick patient. Fettes gets very upset w ...

In this dark story by Robert W. Chambers we are introduced to a detective, who is tasked to uncover a hoax in the Pacific Northwest. There he investigates the possible existence of ...

Helen Turrell is a young and well-off single woman, living a the countryside village. But one day, she decides to travel to southern France and returns home with a baby called Mich ...

For Mr and Mrs Thackenbury it seems like there are too many holidays. They start talking about the hypocrisy behind all these holidays, such as Christmas for example. Yet, they lov ...

"The Hand of Fu-Manchu" is the third book in the Fu-Manchu series. It follows the mad doctor’s adventures in the wicked underground world of crime. A secret organisation threatens ...

"The Insidious Dr. Fu-Manchu" is the first book in the Fu-Manchu series, about the notorious evil mastermind. In the crime fiction world, Fu-Manchu stands on equal grounds with Pro ...

Apart from the ubiquitous presence of the authors who work in the short story tradition, the Second Season introduces poems and novellas. The romantic poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge ...

The first season focuses on the short story tradition, and B. J. Harrison has selected some of the most prominent representatives of the genre. As far as the thematic aspect is con ...

"The Burned House" is a ghost short story by Vincent O’Sullivan in which a benighted traveler stumbles upon a deserted house right in the middle of nowhere. Soon, strange things be ...

"The Castaway" is a short story by W. W. Jacobs, telling of the return of a husband, who was thought lost and buried at sea for three years. Mrs. Boxer immediately welcomes him, bu ...

"The Devil and Tom Walker" is a short story by Washington Irving, tackling the theme of making a deal with the devil. The greedy and easily-corruptible Tom sells his soul in exchan ...