Horror/Ghost stories audiobooks page 10
Als schliesslich das Unfassbare geschieht, bleibt dem Helden Hauberrisser am Ende nur, zu versuchen, den Tod zu überwinden, um zu einem inneren und äußeren unendlichen Leben zu finden, die geistige Blindheit abzuschütteln und die Erleuchtung zu erlangen, - während um ihn herum die Welt in einer Apokalypse u...
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Mysterythriller über den jungen Grafen Melchior Dronte, der von dekadenten Adeligen und einem grausamen Vater umgeben aufwächst, in seinem wilden Studentenleben auf die schiefe Bahn gerät, zum Militärdienst fliehen muss, mehrmals einem absonderlichen arabischen Heiligen, dem Ewli, begegnet und sogar mehrfach vom Teufel versucht wird.
Dabei möchte er eigentlich nur eines: seine verstorbene Jugendliebe, Aglaja, wiederfinden, die ihm in allerlei Reinkarnationen immer auf's Neue begegnet - und stets wieder verloren geht.
Er erkennt, dass er sich von allen Grausamkeiten seiner Welt lossagen und rein werd...
Trilby, published in 1894, fits into the gothic horror genre which was undergoing a revival during the Fin de siècle and is one of the most popular novels of its time, perhaps the second best selling novel of the Fin de siècle period after Bram Stoker’s Dracula.
The story of the poor artist’s model Trilby O’Ferrall, transformed into a diva under the spell of the evil musical genius Svengali, created a sensation. Soap, songs, dances, toothpaste, and Trilby, Florida were all named for the heroine, and a variety of soft felt hat with an indented crown (worn in the London stage production of a dramatization of the novel) came to be called a trilby.
The plot inspired Gaston Le...
“The Jolly Corner,” published in 1908, is considered by many to be a ghost story ranking second only to “The Turn of the Screw.” James’s protagonist, Spencer Brydon, is an American of 56, returned to New York after 33 years in Europe, where he has apparently accomplished little while living off his New York rentals. His friendship with Alice Staverton, and his engagement in the development of a property awaken him to the possibilities that might have been his, had he chosen a different course of life. The “ghost,” if that’s what it is, is that other self that might have been, and his confrontation with that self and its possibilities leads to a deeply unsettling, yet ambiguous, conc...