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It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd.

One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their sixyearold daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears - either into thin air or under thin ice - leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realizes that people are not telling him all they know....

Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night, something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of '60s pop icon Peter Himmelstrand. As the holiday-makers try to come to terms with what has happened, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and secret desires.

Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.

It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.

Blendend helles Licht und Meeresrauschen, sanftes Gläserklingen: Mittsommer auf einer Schäreninsel. Während Astrids Vater, der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Olof Helander, seine Gäste unterhält, schwankt sie zwischen Scham und Langeweile. Da nähert sich lautlos ein Schatten von der offenen See. Innerhalb von Sekunden wird die ganze Festgesellschaft ausgelöscht. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebt das Mädchen. Aber jetzt ist sie allein. Und in Gefahr.

John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge best seller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend. And a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty. Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door.

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heat wave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up.... David always knew his wife was far too good for him. But he never knew how lost he’d be without her until tonight when her car hit an elk. Now she’s gone and he’s alone. But when he goes to identify her body, she begins to move. It’s terrifying, but it gives David a strange kind of hope.

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.

Plötzlich ist es wieder da. Beobachtet sie. Nimmt sie ins Visier. Schickt seine Vorboten aus. Kommt immer näher, um sie zu holen. Seit ihrer Kindheit wird Vera von einem unheimlichen Geräusch verfolgt. Jahrelang konnte sie es erfolgreich ausblenden, aber plötzlich ist es lauter und präsenter als je zuvor. Veras Leben entgleitet ihr immer mehr, bis auch das Leben ihrer Familie in Gefahr ist. Eine spannende Kurzgeschichte vom Horror-Experten John Ajvide Lindqvist...

"Das dunkle Echo der Liebe" spielt unmittelbar nach John Ajvide Lindqvists erfolgreichen Debütroman "So finster die Nacht" und erzählt von der außergewöhnlichen Liebe zwischen Karin und Stefan. Karin ist Polizistin und ermittelt in einem ungewöhnlichen Fall: Ein Irrer ermordete in einem Schwimmbad drei Kinder und entführte ein weiteres. Bei den Ermittlungen lernt sie ihren zukünftigen Mann Stefan kennen. Das Paar verbindet eine unglaubliche Lebensgeschichte und sie führen eine glückliche Ehe.

Wenn das Ende erst der Anfang ist ... Kim Ribbig hat den Schockdoktor Martin Rudbeck gekidnappt und hält ihn im Keller seiner Villa fest. Er will verstehen, was es ist, das einen Menschen dazu bringt, unter dem Vorwand der Wissenschaft junge Menschen zu quälen. Derweil recherchiert die Ex-Polizistin Julia Malmros im Milieu der "Wahren Schweden", einer rechtsextremen Partei mit Kontakten in die kriminelle Szene. Und plötzlich steht Julia vor der schwersten Entscheidung ihres Lebens: Muss sie Kim, der zu einem Teil von ihr geworden ist, verraten?

Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand-new anthology of horror stories to celebrate 20 years of running the number-one Stephen King news website on the web! This anthology includes both original stories like a brand new novella by John Ajvide Lindqvist (Let the Right One In), very rare reprints like The Blue Air Compressor by Stephen King, and at least one classic tale that inspired Lilja's love of the macabre at a very young age! Now, let's join Lilja....

In September 1985, 19-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood. I Always Find You is a horror story - as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist's best-selling novels. It's also a book about being young and lonely, about making friends and growing up. It's about magic and the intensity of human connection - and a society's communal responsibility for a devastating act of political violence.

"Under hösten 2016 drog en självmordsvåg genom Stockholms undre värld." Så inleds John Ajvide Lindqvists roman "X : Den sista platsen", den avslutande delen i trilogin som inleddes med "Himmelstrand" och "Rörelsen". En gång var kriminaljournalisten Tommy T hela Sveriges älskling, men på senare år har hans stjärna dalat. Undersökningen av självmorden ska bli hans upprättelse. Tillsammans med sin hund Hagge nosar han sig djupare in i mysteriet kring den undflyende gestalten "X" som tycks ligga bakom allting. Spåren leder till ett enormt parti kokain samt till ett oändligt fält med kortklippt gräs och en himmel utan sol.

They only stopped watching her for a matter of minutes. That was all it took. It was a beautiful winter's day. Anders, his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, set out across the ice of the Swedish archipelago to visit the lighthouse on Gavasten. There was no one around, so they let her go on ahead. And she disappeared, seemingly into thin air, and was never found. Two years later, Anders is a broken alcoholic, his life ruined. He returns to the archipelago, the home of his childhood and his family.

In Blackeberg, einem Vorort von Stockholm: Nachdem jedoch die Leiche eines kleinen Jungen entdeckt wird, verbreitet sich in Windeseile die Furcht, dass ein Ritualmörder sein Unwesen treibt...

Molly wakes her mother to go to the toilet. The campsite is strangely blank. The toilet block has gone. Everything else has gone, too. This is a place with no sun. No god. Just four families remain. Each has done something to bring them here - each denies they deserve it. Until they see what's coming over the horizon, moving irrevocably towards them. Their worst mistake. Their darkest fear. And, for just one of them, their homecoming.

Stockholm, August 2002: Nach einer extremen Hitzewelle legt sich ein elektrisches Feld über die Stadt. Lampen können nicht mehr gelöscht, Maschinen nicht mehr ausgeschaltet werden. Die Menschen leiden unter Kopfschmerzen, ein Chaos droht. Doch plötzlich ist alles wieder vorüber. Oder doch nicht?

Zehn Menschen wachen in ihren Wohnwagen auf - und nichts ist wie am Abend zuvor. Wo sind sie gelandet? Im Nichts? In der Unendlichkeit? Was sie sehen, ist ein Feld, soweit das Auge reicht. Alles andere ist verschwunden. Das Radio spielt Schlagermusik von Peter Himmelstrand, nichts anderes. Was bloß ist passiert? Sie begeben sich nacheinander auf das Feld hinaus und begegnen dort ihren persönlichen Alpträumen.