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An escaped madman. Unspeakable research into the blackest depths of the occult. Shadowy figures ruthlessly pursuing unholy secrets. Will a young man’s thirst for knowledge push him over the brink to madness, or will it lead him to a fate far, far worse?

Ein junger Liebhaber der Genealogie und der Geschichte dringt in die Annalen seiner eigenen Vergangenheit ein und stößt dabei auf einen höchst unguten Vorfahren...

Charles Dexter Ward is a young man from a prominent Rhode Island family who has disappeared from a mental asylum. He had been incarcerated during a prolonged period of insanity, during which he exhibited minor and inexplicable physiological changes. His empty cell is found to be very dusty. The bulk of the story concerns the investigation conducted by the Wards' family doctor, Marinus Bicknell Willett, in an attempt to discover the reason for Ward's madness and physiological changes.

Charles Dexter Ward is a young man from a prominent Rhode Island family who has disappeared from a mental asylum. He had been incarcerated during a prolonged period of insanity, during which he exhibited minor and inexplicable physiological changes. His empty cell is found to be very dusty. The bulk of the story concerns the investigation conducted by the Wards' family doctor, Marinus Bicknell Willett, in an attempt to discover the reason for Ward's madness and physiological changes.

"The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is a short horror novel by American writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published (in abridged form) in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941; the first complete publication was in Arkham House's Beyond the Wall of Sleep collection (1943). It is included in the Library of America volume of Lovecraft's work.

Tauchen Sie ein in die düstere Welt des Horrormeisters H. P. Lovecraft! "Der Fall Charles Dexter Ward", meisterhaft gelesen von Benjamin Werner, entführt Sie in die unheilvolle Geschichte eines jungen Mannes, der vom Geheimnis seiner Ahnen besessen wird. In dieser packenden Neuübersetzung erleben Sie Lovecrafts unnachahmlichen Stil und seine albtraumhafte Erzählkunst ganz neu. Als Charles Dexter Ward auf den Spuren des mysteriösen Joseph Curwen wandelt, öffnet er ein Tor zu uralten Mächten, die weder er noch sein Arzt, Dr. Marinus Willett, kontrollieren können.

FNH Audio presents a complete and unabridged audio book of H.P. Lovecraft’s novel "The case of Charles Dexter Ward". Charles is a young man, a young man with a passion, a driving passion, a love of the past. What starts as the curious interest of a young boy, growths up with the youth to become the obsession of the man. His friends turn their back on him, he becomes reclusive. His few new friends are dark and mysterious, ominous even.

Charles Ward, even as a child, had always wandered the streets of ancient Providence, drawn inexorably to its domes and spires, its hills and homes, its history and its haunts. His antiquarian habits were always just so: an innocent preoccupation with the city and its wonders. Yet, when the discovery of a shadowy ancestor exposes an eldritch malevolence long thought to be contained, Charles must resist the dark grip of his fascination, before it consumes him, and his world, completely.

দ্য কেস অফ চার্লস ডেক্সটার ওয়ার্ড আমেরিকার নিউ ইংল্যান্ড শহরের প্রভিডেলে উনিশ শতকের শেষদিকে (১৮৯০) জন্মেছিলেন এইচ. পি.

1928, Providence. Risa diaboliche, litanie sconosciute, odori mefitici e voci d'oltretomba si sentono provenire dal laboratorio che Charles Dexter Ward tiene gelosamente chiuso. Il Dr. Willett, che segue Charles dalla nascita, comincia ad indagare sulle cause della sua follia e si troverà a fronteggiare indicibili orrori e terrori soprannaturali. Audiolibro in Mp3.

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When a fiendish fraudster has been fomenting financial falsehoods, who can find the finagler? The World’s Greatest Detective Agency, of course! Staffed by the eccentric man who calls himself Sherman Holmes and aided by his ever-composed assistant Watson, the duo will take on cases other agencies might consider helpless, hopeless, or downright preposterous. Which is how our fearless fellows find themselves investigating a Renaissance faire’s cooked books, with the finger of guilt pointing directly at their client.

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1926 – Christie is a darling of the literary circuit and the most desired guest in London’s glittering social scene. She can often be found at meetings of the Detection Club – where mystery writers come together to share ideas, swap secrets and drink copiously. But then a fellow author's initiation ceremony takes a gruesome turn, and one of the group ends up dead. Now, Agatha is no longer just the creator of great mystery plots – she’s a player in one.