Ergebnis für "The Parasite" in Anthologien & Kurzgeschichten

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most intriguing novella. Austin Gilroy is a scientist and is by nature sceptical of anything to do with the occult. So when his colleague, Professor Wilson, introduces him to the mysterious and sinister hypnotist, Miss Penclosa, he is inclined to view her as a fraud. But when Gilroy's fiancée is hypnotised and Miss Penclosa makes her do the unthinkable, Gilroy is forced to change his views.

"The Parasite" was first published in 1953 in The Avon SF & F Reader. Sir Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008) is regarded as one of the most-influential science fiction writers of all time. He was named a Grand Master by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and was inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

An aging serial killer laments that he’s getting too old to hunt his favorite prey: helpless hitchhikers. A damned soul discovers that Hell isn’t fire and brimstone, but the eternal, mind-numbing bureaucracy of shoveling coal. A lone survivor in a desolate wasteland finds he’s not alone when he keeps meeting—and killing—himself.

In der schriftlich fixierten Sprachanwendung ist Albert Ehrenstein den meisten zeitgenössischen Autoren um Lichtjahre voraus, dennoch ist er bis heute nahezu unbekannt. Gepaart mit herrlicher Situationskomik und einem großartigen Verständnis für Menschen und Gesellschaftsstrukturen entsteht so eine bemerkenswerte Prosa, welche ihren poetischen Glanz auf diesem Hörbuch in Form der folgenden 6 Erzählungen erstrahlen lässt: Ritter Johann des Todes, Liebe, Arbeitsteilung, Seltene Gäste – Dezembergang, Seltene Gäste – Die Parasiten der Parasiten, Seltene Gäste – Entrevue.