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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...

A well-travelled journalist James Edward Preston Muddock – though he was better known as Joyce Emerson Preston Muddock, wrote prolifically in a number of genres. The vast majority of his output were sensational detective stories in which „Dick Donovan” was the main character. In the ‘lost world’ novel „The Sunless City” (1905), Josiah Flintabbatey Flonatin pilots a submarine through a bottomless lake. Upon passing through a hole lined with gold, he finds a strange underground...

„Klasztor i morze” to powieść autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego z 1928 roku. To dość nietypowy, bo bardziej realistyczny utwór w dorobku mistrza literatury grozy. Prezentuje życie kaszubskich rybaków oraz pustelniczą codzienność sióstr anuncjatek, „Morskich Panien”, zamieszkujących nieco tajemniczy klasztor zbudowany na nadmorskich skałach. Powieść rejestruje piękno języka kaszubskiego, czerpie obszernie z folkloru, zwyczajów i legend Kaszubów. Istotnym jej bohaterem jest samo m...

„Księga ognia” autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego zawiera nowele powiązane tematem morderczego żywiołu, takie jak „Czerwona Magda”, „Biały Wyrak”, „Zemsta Żywiołaków”, „Pożarowisko”, „Pirotechnik”, „Gebrowie”, „Muzeum Dusz Czyśćcowych”, „Płomienne Gody” czy „Zielone Świątki”. Każda z nich ujmuje temat z nieco innej strony: od metaforycznej żarliwości wiary, przez inkwizyjne stosy i ogień miłości, aż po dosłownie rozumiane szaleństwo piromańskie. Autor eksploruje dogłębnie wszystk...

„Niesamowita opowieść” to tom nowel autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego, zawierający takie tytuły jak „Kochanka Szamoty”, „Na tropie”, „Spojrzenie”, „W domu Sary”, „Przed drogą daleką”, „Nietykalny” oraz „Świadek Materna”. Łączy je atmosfera niedopowiedzianej niezwykłości, niewyjaśnionych zdarzeń i przenikającej rzeczywistość, elektryzującej niesamowitości. Stefan Grabiński (1887–1936) uznawany jest za jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli nurtu grozy w polskiej literaturze ...

W tomie „W pomrokach wiary” autorstwa Stefana Grabińskiego znajduje się sześć utworów: „Puszczyk”, „Pomsta ziemi”, „Szalona zagroda”, „Wampir”, „Podzwonne” i „Klątwa”. Każdy z nich na swój sposób eksploruje tematykę wiary, porusza kwestie wierzeń, przesądów oraz mechanizmów psychologicznych z pogranicza metafizyki, takich jak siła sugestii czy myślenie fatalistyczne. Stefan Grabiński (1887–1936) uznawany jest za jednego z najwybitniejszych przedstawicieli nurtu grozy w polski...

„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...

George Orwell’s novel 1984 is one of the best dystopian novels. Winston Smith, male, 39, works for the Ministry of Truth. Smith’s job is to change the facts. If a person objectionable to the party appears, then you need to erase information about him, and rewrite some facts properly. Society must follow the laws of the Party and support its policy. The main character only pretends that his ideals coincide with the ideas in the party, but in fact he fiercely hates her politics...

George Orwell is one of the most widely read authors in the world and a very controversial person. His first international fame came from traditional psychological novels. This collection includes all of Orwell’s novels. His name was immortalized by the anti-utopias „1984” and „Animal Farm”, which became the first anti-utopias of the twentieth century and laid the foundation for a whole trend in literature.

An ironic and at the same time sad story about the desecration of the ideas of socialism by tyrants, is told by the author in the form of a fairy tale, where the animals of an ordinary British farm act as people. Every animal and every bird is a socio-political type. The events in the book will remind the reader of the history of the Soviet state. Here we see events starting from the revolution and ending with the final collapse of all the hopes of the inhabitants of the cour...

Powieść Brunona Jasieńskiego „Palę Paryż” została opublikowana w 1928 roku w odcinkach na łamach socjalistycznej francuskiej gazety „L’Humanité”, co wzbudziło duże kontrowersje. Utwór stanowił odpowiedź na nowelę Paula Moranda „Palę Moskwę”, którą Brunon uznał za „antyproletariacki paszkwil”. Postanowił więc odgryźć się i spalić burżuazyjną Francję. Wywołało to ogromny skandal i falę protestów paryżan, którzy domagali się wydalenia Jasieńskiego z Francji.

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”.

Nowela E.T.A. Hoffmanna opublikowana w 1814 roku jest uważana za arcydzieło w dorobku pisarza. Opowiada ona o przygodach młodego studenta Anzelmusa, który musi zmierzyć się z siłami nadprzyrodzonymi i nauczyć się odróżniać dobro od zła. E.T.A. Hoffmann to niemiecki poeta i pisarz romantyczny, jeden z prekursorów weird-fiction, czyli fantastyki grozy. Jego twórczością inspirowali się w późniejszych latach tacy pisarze, jak Edgar Alan Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft czy Gustav...

Wyllard’s Weird is a little-known sensational novel by Mary Elizabeth Braddon. The story mainly concerns the riddle of a young girl who dies as a result of a fall from a train in motion. Was it a murder? Or was it suicide? Amateur detective makes his mission to solve the mystery at the request of old love. The discoveries he makes lead him to a double murder committed ten years ago. Were they connected? If so, then the same murderous hand struck again.

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...

This early work by Ernest Bramah Smith was originally published in 1911. „The Moon of Much Gladness Related by Kai Lung” is the fourth book in the Kai Lung series. The China which Kai Lung inhabits has numerous features of the fantasy Land of Fable, and many of the embedded tales are fantasy; all are told in an ornate manner which ironically, often hilariously, exaggerates the old Chinese tradition of understatement and politesse. Ernest Bramah was born was near Manchester ...

„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...

The name Howard Phillips Lovecraft thundered to the whole world as a standard of horror literature. Gifted with the art of exquisite literature, he wrote about terrible shadows in the corner and that which was inaccessible to ordinary mortals, but only to the elect. His contemporaries and today’s heroes of horror stories pay their tribute to Lovecraft’s tales. The multibook includes the most read novels of the author, such as: „The Call of Cthulhu”, „The Case of Charles Dex...

„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 old godless captain Stormfield believed neither in God, nor in hell, nor in paradise, nor in hell. Imagine his surprise when, after his death, flying through the bottomless depths of space, he nevertheless arrived in paradise. He was even more surprised when he became acquainted with the local order – it was too painfully different from the stories about the paradise of priests on Earth...

The novel tells the story of a future world affected by an epidemic. The first part of the novel begins with a story about the youth of Lionel Verney, about his friendship with the radiant prince Adrian, the son of the abdicated king of England, about his love for the sister of Adrian Idris. Verney has a sister to Loss, with whom the proud Lord Raymond is in love. For the sake of marrying her, he refuses the hands of Idris and, for a while, from the post of Lord Protector o...