„Doktor Jekyll i pan Hyde” (ang. Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) to brytyjska nowela napisana przez szkockiego autora Roberta Louisa Stevensona, po raz pierwszy w oryginale opublikowana w dniu 5 stycznia 1886 roku. Nowela ta jest znana jako portret psychopatologii i podwójnej osobowości. „Dr Jekyll i Mr Hyde” szybko odniósł ogromny sukces i stał się jednym z bestsellerów R.L. Stevensona. Pierwsze adaptacje pojawiły się rok po publikacji, a sama książka stała się inspir...
Mackenzi Lee, której książki figurują na listach bestsellerów, snuje opowieść o młodości jednej z najciekawszych postaci Marvela, Jamesa Buchanana – Bucky’ego – Barnesa, żołnierza wrogich sił, którym się staje wbrew własnej woli. 1954: Zimowy Żołnierz stanowi najdoskonalszą broń Związku Radzieckiego. Wykonuje najniebezpieczniejsze tajne misje na zlecenie tajnego sowieckiego wydziału wojskowego, pod kierunkiem oficer prowadzącej, która zna go lepiej niż on sam. Jego sensem i...
“Wielkie doświadczenie w Keinplatz” to opowiadanie Arthura Conana Doyle’a, znanego na całym świecie jako twórca serii powieści i opowiadań o Sherlocku Holmesie.Jest to opowiadanie napisane przez Arthura Conan Doyle'a, opublikowane po raz pierwszy w magazynie Belgravia w lipcu 1885 roku.To pierwszy utwór tego autora dotyczący tematyki duchów. 30 lat przed jego aktywnym zaangażowaniem się w ruch spirytualizmu.
“Mumia zmartwychwstała” to utwór Arthura Conana Doyle’a, znanego na całym świecie jako twórca serii powieści i opowiadań o Sherlocku Holmesie.Historia opowiada o atlecie z Uniwersytetu Oksfordzkiego imieniem Abercrombie Smith, który zauważa dziwną serię wydarzeń związanych z Edwardem Bellinghamem, studentem egiptologii, który jest właścicielem wielu starożytnych egipskich artefaktów, w tym mumii. Po odkryciu trudnych do wytłumaczenia zjawisk, Abercrombie zaczyna podejżewać, ż...
„Wesele hrabiego Orgaza. Powieść z pogranicza dwóch rzeczywistości” to historiozoficzno-fantastyczny utwór Romana Jaworskiego z 1925 roku. Opowiada o rozgrywce dwóch amerykańskich miliarderów, Havemeyera i Yetmeyera, pragnących odgrywać rolę zbawicieli ludzkości i zbawić kulturę europejską po kryzysie cywilizacji, który nastąpił w wyniku wielkiej wojny. Powieść przesycona jest klimatem katastroficznym związanym z doświadczeniami I wojny światowej. Nawiązuje do nurtu młodopols...
Wacław Filochowski to polski dziennikarz oraz pisarz literatury fantastycznej. Zadebiutował w 1921 roku zbiorem nowel „Chińskie cienie”, a w swoich powieściach często odwoływał się do baśni i tematów okultystycznych. Jest autorem takich utworów jak: „Amulet Ozirisa”, „Czarci młyn”, „Legenda nowej Warszawy”, „Znak”, „Człowiek w ciemnych okularach”, „Przez kraj wód, wichrów i zwierząt” czy „Cierpkie pobratymstwo”.
Ernest Brammah Smith is best-known for two series, the Max Carrados books about a blind detective, all of whose Perceptions are enormously enhanced, and a series of tales in which the Chinese Kai Lung tells stories – often to stave off some unpleasant fate, like Scheherazade. This collection of eight Kai Lung stories came out in 1940, two years before the author’s death. They show the same wit as the earlier ones. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of t...
„The Collected Short Stories” is a collection of short adventure stories from pioneering American fantasy and science fiction writer David Wright O’Brien (1918–1944). A nephew of Farnsworth Wright, editor of Weird Tales, O’Brien was 22 years old when his first story „Truth Is a Plague! „ appeared in the February 1940 issue of Amazing Stories. There were about forty stories and novels under his own name plus others under various pseudonyms, including John York Cabot, Bruce D...
A chance meeting in the Warwick Castle leads to an unusual acquaintance. An American who was born and raised in Connecticut shares his diary, which describes in detail his journey to England in the VI century. Darkness and horror, hunger and poverty – the main companions of the time. Wild laws, the incredible power of the church and the nobility, unlimited faith in words. Absolutely implausible, but quite quickly the American becomes an important person at the court of King...
For many generations of readers, Herbert Wells, author of The Invisible Man, The Island of Dr. Moreau, Food of the Gods, and a number of other science fiction novels, has been and remains a great science fiction writer, whose work has had an important influence on the development of the scientific genre fiction in the 20th century as a whole. The possibilities of science and the power of the human mind – that is what Wells was primarily interested in in the works he created...
„Mysterious Stranger” – a mixture of medieval mystical tales and philosophical parables. In an Austrian village, in the ruins of an old castle, there is a medieval printing house. The master, apprentices, henchmen, their families live right there. A small limited world with well-established connections, a familiar way of life, suddenly and terribly changes. And the reason for this is a poor youth who once appeared on the threshold of an old castle. It was he who called hims...
Incredible adventures await the young English Earl of Rosmore in the vastness of the distant United States. In search of the „American dream”, he finds his distant relative, the „ingenious” inventor, entrepreneur and ventriloquist – Colonel Melberry Sellers, whose main project was the purchase of Siberia to establish a republic in it. An ambitious young count will face insurmountable difficulties on his way to the goal.
„The Splendor of Asia” (1926) is the Story and Teaching of the Buddha. Elizabeth Louisa Moresby was already sixty years old by the time she started writing her novels, which commonly had an oriental setting, and then became a prolific author. She wrote under various pseudonyms, depending on the genre. As Louis Moresby, she wrote nonfiction, including a history of Egypt. As E. Barrington, she wrote historical romances, including a tale of Napoleon and Josephine (1927). As Li...
E. Barrington is a pseudonym of Elizabeth Louisa Moresby, a British-born novelist who became the first prolific, female fantasy writer in Canada. She wrote very quickly, attributing her productivity to her sparse vegetarian diet and Buddhist habits of mental discipline; her best-selling fictional biography of Byron, „Glorious Apollo”, took only one month to complete. A bestseller in the 1920s, „Glorious Apollo” is a fictional biography of the 18th century Romantic poet, Geo...
The spiritual romance of a soul in the Himalayas. An Englishman in India is so influenced by a group of converts to Buddhism that he travels to a monastic retreat in Tibet in the search for spiritual enlightment. The author, also known as E. Barrington, purports that the supernormal happenings in this romance novel are true and are founded upon the ancient Indian philosophy of Upanishads. Moresby was already sixty years old by the time she started writing her novels, which ...
The world of Kipling’s stories is complex and rich, representing essentially an encyclopedia of the plot experience of the best English and American storytellers of the XIX century. They are characterized by psychology, innovation, which consists in introducing new layers of life into the fabric of narration, and a kind of naturalism. The lazy tourists demanding communication with people have already somewhat dulled this feeling of complacency and wide hospitality.
It is possible only on the fingers to list the authors who can write really ingenious novels. One of these authors is Charles Williams. Descent into Hell – one of his greatest novels. The story of the people who struggle with the inner „I”, they are closed in themselves. The story of how a person can choose their happiness in exchange for the misfortune of another.
”Great trump cards” – a novel, brilliantly built on the basis of an ancient deck of tarot cards. This novel is filled with secrets, there are various signs, symbols, riddles. Everyone has different opinions about these secrets, no one can come to a common opinion. Witchcraft can still kill, and the supernatural must be defeated by the supernatural.
The main task of Charles Williams was to show that man must obey God. The main thing in „Many Dimensions” is the all-powerful stone that can fulfill any desire. Above of all, „Many Dimensions” is a complex image of good and evil. Williams fascinatingly shows how evil is not in a particular thing, but in what we do with these things.
”War in Heaven” is a horrific romance, with many mythical creatures present. Instead of creating a unique secondary fantasy world or switching between two universes, Williams allows the supernatural to invade his modern world. This allows him to explore the influence of another reality on different characters. The object that guides the supernatural to the natural in this novel is the Holy Grail
Charles Williams is able to create wonderful ghostly episodes – powerful moments of disclosure. In the novel The Place of the Lion, the world of feelings is depicted as an illusion – simply a reflection of the „real world” from which it originates. This makes some absolutely fascinating scenes, as people suddenly face a reality that they cannot understand. The book raises some interesting questions about good and evil.
Cosmo Topper is an average American bank executive on holiday in the French Riveria. Feckless, fun-loving and totally uncontrollable ghosts, George and Marion Kerby and friends – the tortuously crooked Colonel Scott and his companion, the disreputable Mrs. Hart – return to bring chaos and merriment into the life of mild-mannered, stuffy, and somewhat plump, Topper. One of Thorne Smith’s best-loved comedies, it proves once again that he is the undisputed master of urbane wit...
A comic diary about entering life in the Navy. Published in 1918 and written for the Naval Reservist journal „The Broadside” while the author Thorne Smith was in the Navy, it is a series of short vignettes poking fun at the culture of the time in general and the military in particular. It’s the diary of Biltmore Oswald, a hapless naval recruit with no appreciable talents besides befriending animals and getting into trouble, and his day to day adventures during World War I. ...
James Thorne Smith, Jr. was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction under the byline Thorne Smith. He is best known today for the two Topper novels, comic fantasy fiction involving sex, much drinking and supernatural transformations. Smith’s literary debut was „Biltmore Oswald” (1918), the comic fictional diary of a hapless naval recruit, drawing heavily on wartime experience with the Navy. Episodes had featured in Broadside. The book sold well enough to...
If you’re in the mood for a wildly hilarious comic romp, give Thorne Smith’s „The Bishop’s Jaegars” a read. Mad, hilarious, degenerate, or simply fun fantasy? Only the reader can decide. Adrift and listless, a wealthy coffee heir Peter Van Dyke is searching for meaning in life. His young secretary Jo decides to shake things up and help him get back on track. Although he is engaged to another, she has far from given up. Laughter ensues as they go from one mishap to another a...
Thorne Smith best-remembered for humorous novels, many turning on some fantastic plot device which thrusts the protagonist into grotesque predicaments, often via unwitting transformation. The 1926 publication of „Topper” brought the author immediate acclaim. Elegant, fun-loving George and Marion Kerby are the toast of the town, until they wreck their flashy car and discover they’ve become, well, ghosts. Making the best of a bad situation, they decide that being dead is the ...
The beauty of Ayesha was the only reason for the conflict in many countries. Her father was very jealous of his daughter for the pretenders for her heart. Ayesha helps the goddess Isis, and as a reward Isis leads her to the hidden kingdom of Kôr in Africa to usher in the new Golden Age. The kingdom of Kôr hides many secrets, including the Flame of Eternal Life, where in the end Ayesha’s obsession, obsession and desire lead to her fall.
She and Allan is a unique story written by Henry Rider Haggard. After all, he unites characters from three different series. Allan is looking for Ayesha in the hope of finding answers about his dead loved ones. He becomes involved in the rescue attempt of a young Portuguese-Scotch woman, and also fights with Ayesha’s enemies. This is truly one of the most exciting stories of a successful author.
Ayesha is an example of a strong and stately woman. It is a 2000-year-old woman who still looks amazing for her age, rules the tribes in Africa. Despite the unwelcome arrival of the British on her land. She extends a helping hand to them. Suddenly, she falls in love with one of the researchers of this group. But can such love be?
Sheldon, who was sentenced many times to imprisonment, has long been free. There were no rumors about him. However, his daughter is married and is going to the honeymoon, which paid for her father. The detective gets a phone call saying Sheldon has taken up the old business. And the detective goes to Sheldon’s daughter, whom he was in love with. The pursuit of Sheldon will never stop. However, maybe this time he is still not guilty?
The story begins at the Central Police Department. Where led Sheldon for the fourth time. The prisoner asked to speak with the detective, saying that he has a lead on the case, which the detective is so interested in. But is he not lying? And would a detective believe this? After all, what the prisoner will say will affect many of the detective’s decisions.
Abdul Omar was a psychologist, mystic and astrologer who worked as a private detective. He believed that astrology would help predict the exact actions of a person. Based on the time of birth, he can accurately predict what and when a person will do. He was devoted to protecting women and their honor. He fell in love with and married Lotis, a former assassin of the Black Brotherhood who was sent to kill him.
The story of an undercover detective who works to capture the thief of the Bank. It would seem that he had already caught him. After all, he pressed a button that signaled a patrol garage, and another one that called the inspector and several other officers from the next room. Before the side door of the bank there was a big car in a limousine, which had two entrances, facing two streets. It was clearly a personal car of a rich man, because he was the latest model and luxur...
The fascinating story about a young Swede Christine Daaé. Her father, a famous musician, dies, and she is brought up in the Paris Opera House. After a while in the opera house, she begins to hear a voice that, in the end, teaches her how to sing beautifully. The ghost is in love with the main character and is jealous of her friend, but it can only spell disaster.
The desert shimmered in the heat waves. Conan the Cimmerian stared out over the aching desolation and involuntarily drew the back of his powerful hand over his blackened lips. He stood like a bronze image in the sand, apparently impervious to the murderous sun, though his only garment was a silk loin-cloth, girdled by a wide gold-buckled belt from which hung a saber and a broad-bladed poniard. On his clean-cut limbs were evidences of scarcely healed wounds.
Wings in the Night collects Robert E. Howard’s fiction and prose published in Weird Tales Magazine from July 1932 to May 1933. These works represent literary stepping-stones to Howard’s infamous Cthulhu mythos stories and his most famous character of all -- Conan the Cimmerian -- and ably demonstrate that each of Howard’s stories improved and added to his formidable skills as a master of fantasy and adventure.
The speaker wrapped his purple cloak closer about his powerful frame and settled back into his official chair, much as he might have settled back in his seat at the Circus Maximus to enjoy the clash of gladiatorial swords. Realization of power colored his every move. Whetted pride was necessary to Roman satisfaction, and Titus Sulla was justly proud; for he was military governor of Eboracum and answerable only to the emperor of Rome.
Torches flared murkily on the revels in the Maul, where the thieves of the east held carnival by night. In the Maul they could carouse and roar as they liked, for honest people shunned the quarters, and watchmen, well paid with stained coins, did not interfere with their sport. Along the crooked, unpaved streets with their heaps of refuse and sloppy puddles, drunken roisterers staggered, roaring. Steel glinted in the shadows where wolf preyed on wolf, and from the darkness ...
Over shadowy spires and gleaming towers lay the ghostly darkness and silence that runs before dawn. Into a dim alley, one of a veritable labyrinth of mysterious winding ways, four masked figures came hurriedly from a door which a dusky hand furtively opened. They spoke not but went swiftly into the gloom, cloaks wrapped closely about them; as silently as the ghosts of murdered men they disappeared in the darkness.
The roar of battle had died away; the shout of victory mingled with the cries of the dying. Like gay-hued leaves after an autumn storm, the fallen littered the plain; the sinking sun shimmered on burnished helmets, gilt-worked mail, silver breastplates, broken swords and the heavy regal folds of silken standards, overthrown in pools of curdling crimson. In silent heaps lay war- horses and their steel-clad riders, flowing manes and blowing plumes stained alike in the red tid...
The king of vendhya was dying. Through the hot, stifling night the temple gongs boomed and the conchs roared. Their clamor was a faint echo in the gold- domed chamber where Bhunda Chand struggled on the velvet-cushioned dais. Beads of sweat glistened on his dark skin; his fingers twisted the gold-worked fabric beneath him. He was young; no spear had touched him, no poison lurked in his wine.
The blare of the trumpets grew louder, like a deep golden tide surge, like the soft booming of the evening tides against the silver beaches of Valusia. The throng shouted, women flung roses from the roofs as the rhythmic chiming of silver hosts came clearer and the first of the mighty array swung into view in the broad, white street that curved round the golden-spired Tower of Splendor.
Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author who wrote pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. In a meteoric career that spanned a mere twelve years, Robert E. Howard single-handedly invented the sword and sorcery genre. From his fertile imagination sprang some of fiction’s most enduring heroes. Yet while Conan is indisputably Howard’s greatest creation, it was in his earlier sequence of tales featuring Kull, a fearless warrior with the b...
The Pool of the Black One is one of the original short stories starring the sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan becoming the captain of a pirate vessel and encountering a remote island with a mysterious pool that has powers of transmutation.
...Shipwrecked on a mysterious island, two sailors find traces of a lost civilization – and memories of their own impossible part in it! ...The „last words” of an operatic tenor bring the music of hell to the man who destroyed him....Turlogh O’Brien, mighty Gaelic warrior who serves no master but gold and blood, battles for a kingdom against the fearful ancient gods of Bal-Sagoth. All together for the first time in The Gods of Bal-Sagoth.
The fisherman loosened his knife in its scabbard. The gesture was instinctive, for what he feared was nothing a knife could slay, not even the saw-edged crescent blade of the Yuetshi that could disembowel a man with an upward stroke. Neither man nor beast threatened him in the solitude which brooded over the castellated isle of Xapur.
The long tapers flickered, sending the black shadows wavering along the walls, and the velvet tapestries rippled. Yet there was no wind in the chamber. Four men stood about the ebony table on which lay the green sarcophagus that gleamed like carven jade. In the upraised right hand of each man a curious black candle burned with a weird greenish light. Outside was night and a lost wind moaning among the black trees.
The Black Stranger"is one of the stories byRobert E. HowardaboutConan the Cimmerian. It was written in the 1930s but not published in his lifetime. When the original Conan version of the story failed to find a publisher, Howard rewrote „The Black Stranger” into a piraticalTerence Vulmeastory entitled „Swords of the Red Brotherhood.”
Before Robert E. Howard wrote of „Conan the Cimmerian”, he wrote of the swashbuckler Solomon Kane. „The Adventures of Solomon Kane” takes you through Howard’s horrific and fantastic world of swords and sorcery, the world of ancient secrets and the monsters that live in the jungles of Africa where Kane vanquishes evil. Here are shudder-inducing tales of vengeful ghosts and bloodthirsty demons, of dark sorceries wielded by evil men and women, all opposed by a grim avenger arm...
This collection contains all of Robert E. Howard’s Conan the Cimmerian stories published during his lifetime, contextualized with biographical details of their author. His Conan stories feature a young barbarian warrior who carves himself a kingdom and rules with a degree of wisdom and justice. Neither supernatural fiends nor demonic sorcery could oppose the warrior as he wielded his mighty sword and dispatched his enemies to a bloody doom on the battlefields of the legenda...
Red Nails is the last of the stories about Conan the Cimmerian written by American author Robert E. Howard. A novella, it was originally serialized in Weird Tales magazine from July to October 1936. It is set in the pseudohistorical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan encountering a lost city in which the degenerate inhabitants are proactively resigned to their own destruction. Due to its grim themes of decay and death, the story is considered a classic of Conan lore and is oft...
The dagger flashed downward. A sharp cry broke in a gasp. The form on the rough altar twitched convulsively and lay still. The jagged flint edge sawed at the crimsoned breast, and thin bony fingers, ghastly dyed, tore out the still- twitching heart. Under matted white brows, sharp eyes gleamed with a ferocious intensity.
The cliffs rose sheer from the jungle, towering ramparts of stone that glinted jade-blue and dull crimson in the rising sun, and curved away and away to east and west above the waving emerald ocean of fronds and leaves. It looked insurmountable, that giant palisade with its sheer curtains of solid rock in which bits of quartz winked dazzlingly in the sunlight. But the man who was working his tedious way upward was already halfway to the top.
Shadows in Zamboula is one of the original stories by Robert E. Howard about Conan the Cimmerian, first published in Weird Tales in November, 1935. Its original title was „The Man-Eaters of Zamboula”. The story takes place over the course of a night in the desert city of Zamboula, with political intrigue amidst streets filled with roaming cannibals. It features the character Baal-pteor, one of the few humans in the Conan stories to be a physical challenge for the main Cimme...
Rogues in the House is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written by American author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1934. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan inadvertently becoming involved in the power play between two powerful men fighting for control of a city. It was the seventh Conan story Howard had published.
Shadows in the Moonlight is one of the original short stories starring the fictional sword and sorcery hero Conan the Cimmerian, written author Robert E. Howard and first published in Weird Tales magazine in April 1934. Howard originally named his story „Iron Shadows in the Moon”. It is set in the pseudo-historical Hyborian Age and concerns Conan escaping to a remote island in the Vilayet Sea where he encounters the Red Brotherhood, a skulking creature, and mysterious iron ...
The moonlight shimmered hazily, making silvery mists of illusion among the shadowy trees. A faint breeze whispered down the valley, bearing a shadow that was not of the moon-mist. A faint scent of smoke was apparent. The man whose long, swinging strides, unhurried yet unswerving, had carried him for many a mile since sunrise, stopped suddenly. A movement in the trees had caught his attention, and he moved silently toward the shadows, a hand resting lightly on the hilt of hi...
In this final (chronologically) Conan story, Howard demonstrates why he was one of the best adventure writers of all time. In the only novel he ever produced, Howard is able to maintain the blistering pace he is known for, while still weaving a complex and interesting tale. The story is set during Conan’s time as King of Aquilonia, which is a period in the hero’s life often overlooked.
A powerful wizard named Thugra Khotan is awoken from his three-thousand year sleep by an audacious yet unlucky Zamoran thief named Shevatas. Thugra wakes with dreams of world domination. He assumes the name Natohk, the Veiled One, gathers an army of desert tribes and sets out to conquer the Hyborian nations.
Professor John Kirowan is a fictional character from Robert E. Howard’s contributions to H.P. Lovecraft’s story cycle „the Cthulhu Mythos”. Kirowan is often partnered with the character John Conrad, to the extent that these stories are often referred to under the group title Conrad & Kirowan. Professor Kirowan is a younger son of a titled Irish family and a scholar of the Mythos who travelled widely in search of forbidden knowledge. His ancestor, Sir Michael Kirowan was...
A young settler named Balthus walks blissfully unaware through a forest trail when the sound of combat draws his attention. He hides behind a tree and sees Conan step into the open, having just slain a Pictish robber who was about to ambush Balthus. Conan had been tracking the Pict for some hours, as he has been chasing the encroaching Picts on commission from nearby Fort Tuscelan.
The creator of Conan looks to the stars in one of fantasy’s most enduring science fantasy classics! Robert E. Howard’s Almuric is a savage planet of crumbling stone ruins and debased, near-human inhabitants. Into this world comes Esau Cairn, Earthman, swordsman, murderer. Only he can overthrow the terrible devils that enslave Almuric, but to do so he must first defeat the inner demons that forced him to abandon Earth.
„Skórzany lejek” to krótka, raczej upiorna opowieść, która koncentruje się na wizji snu, która nawiązuje do czasów, w tym przypadku do XVII wieku, kiedy ludzi torturowano przy pomocy najbardziej wyszukanych metod. Jak można się spodziewać, jest to bardzo dobrze napisana i interesująca opowieść – jakby gotycka wersja niesławnego historycznego przypadku markiza de Brinvillliersa. Historia opowiadała o gościu, który odwiedził dom angielskiego kolekcjonera niezwykły...
W 1884 r. Abercrombie Smith, sportowiec i student medycyny na Uniwersytecie Oksfordzkim, zostaje wezwany do pokoi swojego sąsiada i kolegi Edwarda Bellinghama. Bellingham, fanatycznego student egiptologii, który posiada wiele starożytnych egipskich artefaktów, który zemdlał z powodu szoku. Kiedy Smith wykorzystuje swoje umiejętności medyczne, aby ożywić Bellinghama, przyjaciel tego ostatniego, William Monkhouse Lee wyjaśnia, że Bellingham ma dziwną obsesję na punk...
Książka w dwóch wersjach językowych: polskiej i angielskiej. A dual Polish-English language edition. „Kraina mgieł” jest trzecią z cyklu książką opowiadającą o perypetiach profesora Challengera, jego współtowarzysza dziennikarza Malone’a i miłośnika przygód lorda Roxtona, których można było wcześniej spotkać w powieściach „Zaginiony świat” i „Trujące pasmo”. W tej powieści wkroczymy jednak nie w świat materialny, chociaż różniący się od tego, w którym żyjemy,...
The Kai Lung books are really short-story collections, whose disparate, rambling tales are knitted together by framing narratives featuring the eponymous travelling storyteller. The third in Bramah’s Kai Lung series of fantasy novels. „Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat”, like the others in the series consists of thinly connected stories related by Kai Lung, concerning the adventures of the storyteller and his lady love Hwa-Mei versus the wicked but ever-smooth Mandarin Shan Tien and...
The second volume of amusing Chinese fantasies. A captivating collection that’s ripe for rediscovery, „Kai Lung’s Golden Hours” stands as the very best of these beguiling books. As with other Kai Lung novels, the main plot serves primarily as a vehicle for the presentation of the gem-like, aphorism-laden stories told by the protagonist Kai Lung, an itinerant story-teller of ancient China. With the help of beautiful Hwa Mei, who has the attention of evil Ming Shu, Kai tries ...
Klasyczne dzieła fantasy polecamy każdemu, kto chciałby rozpocząć swoją przygodę w świecie fantasy - uwielbia poznawać nowe uniwersa i wielkich bohaterów walczących ze Złem.
W kategorii klasycznych książek fantasy, fani tego gatunku znajdą zarówno sagi high fantasy takie jak “Ziemiomorze” Ursuli K. Le Guin, “Władcę Pierścieni” J. R. R. Tolkiena czy “Pieśń Lodu i Ognia” George’a R. R. Martina, często porównywaną z dziełami Tolkiena, jak i “Mroczną wieżę” Stephena Kinga zawierającą wiele elementów literatury grozy, a także science fiction czy powieści obyczajowej. "Pieśń Lodu i Ognia" stała się podstawą równie kultowego serialu “Gra o tron”, który w ostatnich sezonach wykracza poza wątki znane z obecnie wydanych tomów sagi Martina. Fani wciąż czekają na ostatnie tomy cyklu - oczekiwanie to jednak osładzają inne dzieła związane z twórczością George’a R. R. Martina, takie jak powieści “Rycerz Siedmiu Królestw” czy dwa tomy “Ogień i krew”, związane z prequelem “Gry o tron”, serialem “Ród smoka”.
Ranking książek fantasy należy rozpocząć jedną z najbardziej klasycznych pozycji, jaką są dzieła Roberta E. Howarda, opowiadające o losach Conana Barbarzyńcy. Pisarza tego uważa się także za prekursora heroic fantasy - w Woblinku znajdziecie na przykład zbiór jego opowiadań “Zaginiona rasa” w formacie ebooka. Na liście klasycznych książek fantasy, wielbicielki i wielbiciele tego gatunku znajdą także “Władcę Pierścieni” J.R.R Tolkiena, “Ziemiomorze” Ursuli K. Le Guin, cykl "Pieśń Lodu i Ognia” G.R.R Martina czy “Mroczną Wieżę” Stephena Kinga. Wielu dopisuje do niego także serię “Kroniki Amberu” autorstwa Rogera Zelazny’ego, cykl dziesięciu powieści rozgrywających się w wieloświecie, gdzie Amber oraz Dworce Chaosu stanowią najpotężniejsze krainy. Podążamy tam śladami potomków twórcy Amberu i pierwszego z rodu Amberytów, Dworkina. A jeśli wolicie coś z gatunku dark fantasy, polecamy “Kroniki Czarnej Kompanii” autorstwa Glena Cooka, uznawane za dzieło, które zrewolucjonizowało ten typ opowieści. Pogrążone w nieustannej walce krainy czekają na narodziny Białej Róży, istoty, która zgodnie z pradawnym proroctwem ma zmienić losy ich świata. Kluczowi dla realizacji tej zapowiedzi okazują się najemnicy z tytułowej Czarnej Kompanii, bezwzględnie i bez żadnych pytań dokładnie wykonujący zlecone im zadania. Te i wiele innych wyjątkowych serii fantasy znajdziecie na Woblink w formatach książek papierowych, audiobooków lub ebooków.
Klasyka literatury fantasy to nie tylko epickie cykle powieści zagranicznych, ale także polskich twórców. Wśród nich z pewnością należy wspomnieć Andrzeja Sapkowskiego i jego sagę o wiedźminie Geralcie, jedną z najpopularniejszych polskich serii fantasy na świecie. Rozpoczyna ją tom “Wiedźmin. Ostatnie życzenie”, zbiór opowiadań wprowadzających w niesamowity świat czarów, potworów i namiętności. Dla wielu kultową jest także seria “Pan Lodowego Ogrodu” Jarosława Grzędowicza, fantasy polskiego autora z elementami science fiction. Vuko Drakkainen włada nadludzkimi zdolnościami dzięki najnowszej technice, a jego zadaniem jest znalezienie kilkorga naukowców, którzy bez śladu zaginęli wiele lat temu na planecie Midgaard. Nie sposób zapomnieć także o serii “Zastępy Anielskie” autorstwa Mai Lidii Kossakowskiej, zwanej pierwszą damą polskiej fantastyki. Siedem książek tworzy cykl zaliczany do angel fantasy - główny bohater, Daimon Frey, zwany jest także Abaddonem lub Aniołem Zagłady. W tym stworzonym przez Kossakowską świecie hierarchia wśród aniołów jest ściśle określona, mają oni jednak wspólny problem - zniknął ich Pan. Jak długo uda im się ukrywać ten fakt? Najlepsze polskie książki fantasy czekają na Was na Woblink także jako ebooki!
