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Full-cast dramatisations of three acclaimed novels by Elizabeth Taylor – including Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont – plus 17 readings of her short fiction Described by Antonia Fraser as ‘one of the most underrated novelists of the 20th century’, Elizabeth Taylor was much admired for her...

Ihre Schönheit war berauschend. Sie war ein lebensfrohes Wesen. Und sie wollte in Kürze heiraten. Doch all ihr Glück erstickte in einem furchtbaren Tod. Von ihrem Freund aus der Gruft geholt, von einem mysteriösen Einsiedler erweckt, kehrte Clarisse ins Leben zurück. Doch sie hatte sich verändert! Ihre Seele war von einem Höllenwesen infiziert. Clarisse wurde zur tödlichen Gefahr. Ihre Schönheit lockte die Opfer in die Falle.

Eine davon ist die vom Geist des Dombaumeisters Gerhard von Ryle, der keine Ruhe findet und auch in der Gegenwart sein Unwesen treibt. Ich wurde von dem Domkapitel beauftragt, dem Spuk ein Ende zu bereiten, und meine Ermittlungen führen mich auch auf eine Zeitreise in das Jahr 1260.

Marie Stöger hörte die Schritte hinter ihr nicht. Sie vernahm nur die Geräusche der Tiere im Stall. Auch das Quietschen der Tür, die langsam geöffnet und wieder geschlossen wurde, nahm sie nicht wahr. Albert Stöger trat hinter sie. Zwischen seinen Händen spannte sich ein dicker Strick. Blitzschnell schlang er ihn ihr um den dürren Hals. Ich muss dich töten. Der Meister hat es befohlen! Mit einer übermenschlichen Kraft zog er die Schlinge zu. Marie Stöger hatte keine Chance. Nach einigen ruckartigen, zuckenden Bewegungen erschlaffte ihr Körper.

Hillario Mendez ist tot. Kurz vor seinem schrecklichen Ende gelang es Mendez, mit dem Bösen einen Pakt zu schließen, um sich an den Mördern rächen zu können. Die Armee des Todes erwacht zum Leben und beginnt einen mörderischen Rachefeldzug.

Bloodthirsty hired guns are out to ruin a lawman’s plans for progress in this action-packed Western from the award-winning author of Sharpshooter. Born out of the grit, sweat, and drive of a cattle ranching empire, U.S. Marshal Chet Byrnes is turning the savage and lawless Arizona desert into a homeland. To some he’s the hero that the West needs. To others, he’s a moving target.

In Schottland geht das Grauen um. Der Familien-Clan der Abernathys ist Opfer eines jahrhundertealten, blutigen Fluches. Sobald die Dudelsackmusik erklingt, sind sie gezwungen, dem magischen Ruf zum See zu folgen. Dort wartet das Grauen auf sie. Doch handelt es sich hier wirklich um einen Fluch oder stecken andere Gründe dahinter? Die junge Studentin Sheila versucht, dem Geheimnis auf die Spur zu kommen. Doch als das erste Mitglied des Clans vor ihren Augen zu Staub zerfällt, muss sie erkennen, dass die Mächte der Finsternis stärker sind als sie.

Mein Chefredakteur hatte wirklich einen seltsamen Humor. Denn an Bord befanden sich nicht nur abenteuerlustige Touristen. Tief unten – in den Lagerräumen – da erwachte ein Wesen aus längst vergessenen Tagen. Ein mächtiger Dämon. Und er lechzte nach Blut – nach Tod und Vernichtung.

Vor drei Jahren war Galahad von Camelot aus aufgebrochen, um den Sitz der Herrin des Sees ausfindig zu machen. Was sich dann in der Vergangenheit ereignete, hatte gewaltige Auswirkungen auf mein Leben, denn die Hölle öffnete ihre Tore. Mein Name ist Alan Demore, Ritter des Lichts. Den langen Weg, die ganzen Strapazen hatte der Ritter hinter sich gebracht, um diesen Ort zu erreichen. Nur Artus, sein Herr, wusste davon.

It's 1699 in the coastal settlement of Fount Royal in the Carolinas when Rachel Howarth is sentenced to be hanged as a witch. She's been accused of murder, deviltry, and blasphemous sexual congress, and the beleaguered, God-fearing colonial village wants her dead. But Matthew Corbett, young clerk to the traveling magistrate summoned to Fount Royal to weigh the accusations, soon finds himself persuaded in favor of the beguiling young widow.

In the early 1990’s, Hellboy, Liz Sherman, and Abe Sapien are drawn into a bizarre case in New York, linked both to Hellboy’s 1980 adventure with Anastasia in Brazil and to The Lobster’s encounter with the Proteus Club in 1933. A strange community of bizarre humans has been living in secret beneath Manhattan for more than sixty years. Now, though, someone is stalking them, murdering them one by one—someone who claims to be the ancient goddess Sem-Karul. With aid from the now elderly Cynthia Tynan, Hellboy and the BPRD must face the Goddess of Manhattan, and the monsters who serve her.

It's 2045-2059. Human society continues to evolve on Datum Earth, its battered and weary origin planet, as the spread of humanity progresses throughout the many Earths beyond. Lobsang, now an elderly and complex AI, suffers a breakdown and, disguised as a human, attempts to live a "normal" life on one of the millions of Long Earth worlds. His old friend, Joshua, now in his 50s, searches for his father and discovers a heretofore unknown family history.

The Organisation has despatched Ishmael and his partner Penny to Coronach House on the shores of Loch Ness where the secretive but highly influential Baphamet Group are holding their annual meeting. The Organisation believes an imposter has infiltrated the Group and they have instructed Ishmael to root him – or her – out. It’s not Ishmael’s only mission. The first agent sent by the Organisation has been found dead in her room, murdered in a horribly gruesome manner. Ishmael must also discover who killed his fellow agent, Jennifer Rifkin – and why.  

Kylara had to leave a bright future as a military cadet and was thrown into the brutal world of off-world trading. This subsequent career in the family business was tough: marked by war, mutiny, and attempted assassination. But then her home was attacked and her parents killed - their trading empire left in ruins. Now she must save what is left of the family and the business, with few friends and too few assets. She must make full use of her hard-won experience to not just survive, but to restore the shattered fortunes of the Vatta family and their allies. 

With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett has earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he has become equally well-known and respected as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights.

The lethal plant cancer know as Earthblood had destroyed life on the planet in a matter of months, leaving a barren wilderness road where markers are corpses and cities are death traps. Into this nightmarish world the crew of the United States space vessel Aquila returned, a world of grim hunger and sudden death.   

The Earth is laid waste by a devastating blight that destroys the world's food supply. Mass starvation wipes out millions almost overnight. Society collapses, and those who survive must contend with renegade groups striving for naked power. A new currency comes into existence - precious food and the force of arms that helps get it at any cost.   

No gun. No horse. No water or food. And worse yet: No idea how he ended up in the middle of a desert with a bullet in his leg and a bump on his head. That’s the sorry situation Matt Jensen wakes up to — dazed and confused — until he slowly pieces together what happened. The last thing he remembers: He agreed to help out a friend of Duff MacCallister’s. A pretty lady and her husband at a horse ranch. He also recalls their cross-country trip through hell to deliver the horses safely to market. That’s when the outlaws showed up. That’s when the shooting began. 

Freedom is on the march as the rebellion against the Kurian Occupation of Earth takes the offensive. David Valentine has recruited an ad hoc company of former Quisling soldiers and puts them through a trial by fire with a successful raid against an enemy armory. Now, they're ready to join forces with a guerilla army planning to establish a new freehold in the Appalachian Mountains. Valentine knows that a permanent outpost near the East Coast would provide a strategic victory over the Kurians - and he believes that only his old ally Ahn-Kha could be leading the guerillas.

David Valentine resigns as a Wolf militia, and accepts an offer to become a Cat, one of the stealthy warriors trained to spy on, and go toe-to-toe with the Reapers. Under the command of his mentor, Smoke, Val's first mission is to enter the Kurian zone and investigate "The Twisted Cross", a strike force of alien-human hybrids, possessing the skills of combat veterans and the hunger of the Reapers....Along the way he befriends a powerful alien, a Grog named Anh-Ka, who declares David his blood brother after Valentine nurses him back from death.