Verlag: Edition Lempertz
The Gothic tale of "The Body Snatcher" concerns a young medical student's dealings with grave robbers who provide corpses to dissect and study—a practice that takes on increasingly sinister dimensions.
Going on an adventure to find ocelots is the cat’s meow!* Good hearted Alex and courageous Steve are at it again – on another adventure, this time to the jungle to find ocelots! After Alex* has a wonderful dream* about a new home, the duo decides to make it a reality building a beautiful new home for Alex. *All is well, until some creepers arrive. *Alex can only watch in dismay as her brand new garden is blown up again and again by the nasty little creatures. Alex and Steve hatch a plan, to go into the jungle and tame an ocelot to protect the house from creepers. Through every twist and turn in the forest, adventure is there to greet them. The journey’s excitement is kicked up a notch when the friends witness a mean witch snatching up ocelots. Now it is up to them to save the poor animals. But this is easier said than done. It turns out the *witch has a sneaky surprise for them too. * Will Alex and Steve defeat the witch and rescue the ocelots? How will they find their way home? And will Alex successfully tame one to protect her house? You’ll have to read Ocelot Adventure to find out! A story of true friendship and bravery, Ocelot Adventure will have any little fan of Minecraft swept up in the story of protagonists doing the right thing. This book is sure to captivate any young reader, even the ones who don’t necessarily like to read.Zum Buch
Being a physiologist, Austin Gilroy is unconvinced that the occult is real. His friend Professor Wilson, however, is not only convinced that psychical powers are real, but eagerly desires that Gilroy should be persuaded. To this end, Wilson invites Austin to his house for a demonstration. The effect is that Austin, although still skeptical, now concedes that there is more in the matter than he at first believed. But when the psychic, Miss Penclosa, controls his actions to the point where he nearly murders his fiancee, Austin Gilroy doubts no longer. (summary by Carl V.)Zum Buch
Peter Lorre is typecast as The Maestro, a prizefight manager planning revenge on his star fighter by scalding him to death in the steamroom!Zum Buch
The blue, veiled eye of an old man is an object that drives the main character to madness. Every time he sees it, aggression and a desire to murder arise within him. He decides to commit a crime.He carefully plans it, and for a week, every night, he peeks into the adjacent room where the old man lives and observes him silently so as not to wake him up - he keeps repeating that he cannot be considered a madman because in his opinion, no madman would plan a murder with such precision. One night, however, the older man awakens during the visit of the nocturnal guest...Zum Buch
Dr. Dr Death, The Coroner and Dante, his assistant suspect there is a vampire in the hospital he works in they hunt for them who will end up dead in the end.Zum Buch
When the daughter of a powerful man is abducted, Occult Investigator Devlin Flynn is called upon to help investigate the mysterious disappearance. Teaming up with an ambitious young detective, they uncover a dangerous occult organisation at the heart of the British Empire and a sinister plot that threatens to unleash an ancient evil upon the world.Zum Buch
