Sjukhusbiblioteken i Västerbotten

Telepathic birds, cavemen and prehistoric monsters. Not exactly what you would expect to find at the centre of the Earth! 'At the Earth’s Core' is the first novel in Burroughs’ fa ...

'Allan and the Holy Flower' tells the tale of Haggard’s glorious adventure hero Allan Quatermain. Allan receives a flower from Brother John and is ready to travel to Britain and me ...

When roaming the African wilderness in quest of hidden riches, it would probably be wise to consider beforehand that you just might stumble upon more than you bargained for. Indeed ...

'The Wanderer’s Necklace' is an adventure novel by H. Rider Haggard in which a Norseman has to leave his homeland after he challenges Odin and his ways of dealing with the world. I ...

Machen’s occult investigator Dyson is back to the job with another murder mystery. 'The Inmost Light' presents Dyson’s first-hand account of a story he witnessed - the wife of a fa ...

'Of living creators of cosmic fear raised to its most artistic pitch, few if any can hope to equal the versatile Arthur Machen.' -H.P. LovecraftDr. Thomas Vivian has been brutally ...

A forlorn London suburb. Four people are gathered around a table in a derelict abandoned house. One is a beautiful woman with hazel eyes, Helen. Two are men who are maniacally laug ...

A beautiful ancient Egyptian queen revived from the dead, an adventurous archaeologist with a love for mummies, and a daughter possessed. This horror novel has it all!Believed by s ...

What do you get when an Australian finds his way to England? Hair-raising adventures, lots of madness and romance and some demented turns of fate!'The Lair of the White Worm' is a ...

Mysterious creatures, somber landscapes, wanderings in the afterlife, and macabre suspense. If you think this sounds dark and straight out of a horror movie then you would be right ...

Deep in the Wild West, young Mark Twain adventures through America. He's on a journey to a faraway land. With his brother by his side, Twain treks from town to town, undertaking a ...

When Gilliat sees Deruche writing his name in the snow, he falls in love – one day, he must have this magical young woman as his bride. The chance to win Deruche’s heart comes, how ...

In ‘The Night of Christmas Eve’ the Devil roams free and decides to steal the moon to punish Vakula, a local blacksmith for his religious paintings, leaving the town of Dikanka in ...

A handsome young man goes missing the night before his wedding-day, along with one million pounds. Detective James Sepping is assigned to the case, assisted by the intrepid Joan Wa ...

In the ancient Garre Castle, the dead walk again, the Green Archer hung in 1487 has returned...and he has killed again. The castle’s reclusive owner refuses to allow anyone to inve ...

Jesse Trasmere is a penny-pinching miser with no faith in banks, instead he keeps his vast fortune in a locked vault at his fortress mansion. Rex Lander his dependant nephew is unh ...

This police thriller opens with Scotland Yard Detective Surefoot Smith as he is called to a strange murder scene. Tom Tickler, a well-known petty thief has been brutally murdered, ...

In a France torn apart by revolutions and coups, it seemed that power was right there for the taking. And the Duchess of Berry wasn’t going to pass up her chance. Together with he ...

'The night is far spent; the day is at hand.' 'They shall see the son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.'This is a short booklet by Harriet Beecher Stowe about t ...

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone"Poems such as "The Other World" "Mary at the Cross" and "The Secret" are spread across the pag ...

As if it wasn’t enough that he was born with a hump, Zia is forced to beg on the streets of old Bethlehem. Everything he earns is taken away from him by the wicked woman who keeps ...

You’ve probably read or seen a film based on an epistolary novel (a story presented through letters sent between characters): "Persuasion", "Dracula", and "The Perks of Being a Wal ...

We hear it all the time - Charles Dickens invented what we think of as a traditional Christmas. In this collection of short stories, he proves this fact. Vivid images of plum puddi ...

Father and son team John and Ezra Girdlestone are facing the financial ruin of their family business. In order to save the firm and the family name, the duo come up with a series o ...

First published in 1894, ‘Round the Red Lamp’ is a collection of mostly medical themed stories from the famous Sherlock Holmes author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, no doubt drawing on hi ...