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William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories, and was a great friend and collaborator of Charles Dickens. The Biter Bit is a detective story with a twist. A rookie investigator, Matthew Sharpin, has been thrust on Scotland Yard with instructions to try him out on a case. He is assigned the case currently being worked on by experienced officer Sergeant Bulmer.

In diesem Hörbuch sind sieben Gruselgeschichten berühmter Autoren vereint - in diesem Paket noch billiger als einzeln gekauft! Entdecken Sie die spannenden und gruseligen Erzählungen von Meistern der Dichtkunst wie Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Wilkie Collins, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Louis Stevenson und Bram Stoker...

William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) was an English novelist, playwright, and author of short stories. Mad Monkton is a bizarre ghost story. It is said that a strain of hereditary madness blights the Monkton family, heirs to the huge domain of Wincot Abbey. Rumours in the neighbourhood are that Alfred, the youngest scion, has inherited this insanity. His odd behaviour certainly points that way. Alfred is engaged to his childhood sweetheart, Ada Elmslie.

Isaac träumt von einer Frau: Sie steht am Fußende seines Bettes mit erhobenem Messer, um ihn zu erstechen. Jahre später heiratet er - doch die Ehe wird nicht glücklich. Eines Nachts erwacht er, und seine Frau droht ihn zu erstechen...

A terrifying and macabre collection of anatomically inspired stories by the masters of gruseome fiction.

En cette nuit du 23 août 1829, sur la côte déchiquetée des Cornouailles, la résidence d'été des Treverton n'est plus que silence et ténèbres.

Wilkie Collins may have had issues with women, and it becomes apparent in this short story by Collins when Isaac Scatchard, not the brightest bulb on the tree, an itinerant ostler, wakes on the night of his birthday to see the apparition of a woman trying to stab him with a clasp knife. Seven years later he marries Rebecca Murdoch, against the wishes of his mother who recognizes her from Isaac's description as the dream woman. Rebecca takes to drink and fulfills the prophecy by attacking him on his birthday.

The stuff of nightmares! A terrifying collection of stories about haunted rooms, strange beds, terrifying dreams and sleepless nights. Listen at bedtime if you dare!

Wilkie Collins describes a traveller who has a magic mirror in his possession which enables him to recall scenes from his travels. In a series of amusing sketches he relives various travels in the Tyrol and the Alps before taking a decision about his next holiday destination.

From the author of novels like The Moonstone and The Woman in White, Caprisha Page masterfully narrates the short story Mrs. Zant and the Ghost, the tale of a widower and his daughter as they encounter a mysterious woman in a London park. This chance encounter leads to them along a path that involves lost love, murder, (possibly) a ghost, and a fairly vicious love triangle. Is there a ghost? Can Mrs. Zant be saved? Or is it all merely madness?

On the night before their execution during the French Revolution, twenty-one condemned prisoners and their friends are permitted a last banquet before their trip to the guillotine on the morrow. While they feast and jest on their last night alive, they begin to speculate about the hour of the execution the next day. Only one prisoner, Duprat, is quiet on the subject. His friend Marginy questions him on the subject, and Duprat asserts than he knows the exact time at which he will die on the next day.

A haunting collection of unforgettable tales by great classic authors.

When Arthur Holliday arrives at Doncaster during race week, he is unable to find a hotel room free. His search for a bed for the night leads him to a dubious hostelry, The Two Robins, where he is offered a bed in a shared room at a handsome price of five shillings. The landlord assures Arthur that his room-mate is sleeping soundly and will in no way disturb him. A quick examination of the sleeping man confirms that he is indeed very quiet. Too quiet!

From the pen of the author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, comes a collection of lesser known yet equally magnificent supernatural stories! Volume two features "A Terribly Strange Bed" (read by Luke Harrison), "Mrs. Zant and the Ghost" (read by Murray Melvin), and "Blow Up with the Brig" (read by Phil Reynolds). Be prepared to be terrified and entertained as Wilkie Collins’ disturbing tales of ghosts, deadly visions, and family curses come to life in this fantastic new collection.

From the pen of the author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone, comes a collection of lesser known - yet equally magnificent - supernatural stories.

This volume contains "Miss Jeromette and the Clergyman" (read by Sean Connolly), "Nine O’clock" (read by Luke Harrison), and "Who Killed Zebedee?" (read by Murray Melvin).

Be prepared to be terrified and entertained, as Wilkie Collins’ disturbing tales of ghosts, deadly visions, and family curses come to life.

Wilkie Collins was an early master of the mystery and detective story and the first English novelist to write in this genre. "Blow Up with the Brig" is a short story written in 1859, just a year before he wrote his famous novel The Woman in White.

When the Countess Narona meets Agnes Lockwood, the woman jilted by her husband-to-be, she feels a great sense of foreboding. After the marriage, she moves with her husband, Lord Montbarry, to Venice. As much as Agnes tries to forget the episode of her broken engagement, her fate and that of the Countess seem to be inextricably woven. Both are relentlessly drawn to the Palace Hotel in Venice for a final and dramatic encounter, in the room where more than past emotions resurface to haunt them.

Do czego zdolna jest matka dla swojego dziecka? Madame Fontaine, wdowa po wybitnym chemiku, ma w sobie wystarczająco determinacji i przebiegłości, żeby doprowadzić do skutku plany matrymonialne młodej Minny, a każdemu, kto ośmieli się stanąć na jej drodze, grożą niebezpieczne konsekwencje. Lecz czy nie natrafiła przypadkiem na godnego siebie przeciwnika w osobie niejakiego Słomianego Jacka, byłego pensjonariusza zakładu dla obłąkanych? Dopiero w domu pogrzebowym okaże się, kto zatriumfuje – i kto ujdzie z życiem.

"La donna in bianco" è il capolavoro di Wilkie Collins, amico e collaboratore di Charles Dickens. Quest'opera è uno dei romanzi più apprezzati nella letteratura inglese, ed è entrato a far parte dei migliori cento romanzi gialli di tutti i tempi, classifica della Crime Writers Association. La particolare forma narrativa, la caleidoscopica presentazione della vicenda, ripresa dai diversi punti di vista dei protagonisti e dei testimoni degli avvenimenti delittuosi, rappresenta un unicum nel suo genere.

We love control. The ability to predict and organise our lives as we want them. As we desire them. It’s quite a shock, then, when phantoms, ghouls and ghosts play their part, too. They don’t play by our rules. Our welfare is not their concern. They will do as they wish. And they have very vivid imaginations - way beyond the dictionary definition: Phantom. Noun. Something apparently seen, heard or sensed but having no physical reality. An image that appears only in the mind; an illusion. A model, especially a transparent one, of the human body or of any of its parts.