Ergebnis für "A House Unsettled" in Literatur & Belletristik

Vom Reisen im eigenen Land - und vom Ankommen bei sich selbst. Ein paar vergilbte Fotos. Das ist alles, was Anne an persönlichen Erinnerungen und Dokumenten ihres Mannes Peter gefunden hat. Anne fährt an die Orte, an denen sie aufgenommen wurden - auf einer Wohnmobiltour, die sie zusammen hatten machen wollen. Jetzt wird sie zur Reise durch Peters Leben, bevor er Annes Ehemann und Alinas Vater wurde. Bei ihrem Aufbruch vom Niederrhein nach Rügen und Thüringen erfährt Anne mehr über den Mann, in den sie sich vor dreißig Jahren verliebt hatte.

Robert Aickman, the supreme master of the supernatural, brings together eight stories in which strange things happen that the reader is unable to predict. His characters are often lonely and middle-aged, but all have the same thing in common: they are brought to the brink of an abyss that shows how terrifyingly fragile our piece of mind actually is. 'The Unsettled Dust', 'The House of the Russians', 'No Stronger Than a Flower', 'The Cicerones' and 'Ravissante' first appeared in the Sub Rosa collection in 1968, but the stories were published together as The Unsettled Dust in 1990.

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When it comes to short stories, Edgar Allan Poe is considered by many to be the master of terror and the macabre. This is one of his most famous stories. A man visits a friend but finds something very strange is going on with him - and his house.