Tag archieven: horror

Horror. Wat zijn bekende romans en andere boeken in het horrorgenre? Welke schrijfsters en schrijfsters hebben de boeken geschreven? Wat is de inhoud van de horrorromans en andere boeken?

Mexicaanse roman, Mexicaanse schrijfster, Mexico

Ave Barrera – Restauration

Ave Barrera Restauration review, recensie en informatie roman van de Mexicaanse schrijfster. Op 26 augustus 2025 verschijnt bij Charco Press de Engelse vertaling van Restauración, de roman uit 2019 van de uit Mexico afkomstige schrijfster. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Ave Barrera Restauration review en recensie

  • “Perhaps the most terrifying novels of all are those that give us a clear and authentic reflection of ourselves.” (Letras Libres)
  • “Ave Barrera carries out a meticulous architectural construction in which each element serves to support the others, using words with the care that a good craftsperson dedicates to the tools and materials necessary for a restoration.” (La Marea)
  • “As with today’s feminist struggles, our central character looks at the connection between past and present violence.” (El Economista)
  • “Barrera delves into the inadequacies, indulgence and regrets that accompany both women of today and the past: love as a construct and sometimes as a kind of sect that demands sacrifices from its most naive members.” (Marvin)

Ave Barrera Restauration

Restauration

  • Auteur: Ave Barrera (Mexico)
  • Soort boek: Mexicaanse roman
  • Origineel: Restauración (2019)
  • Engelse vertaling: Ellen Jones, Robin Myers
  • Uitgever: Charco Press
  • Verschijnt: 26 augustus 2025
  • Omvang: 258 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 11,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman van de Mexicaanse schijfster Ave Barrera

Propelled by female desire, shaped by the violence of the male gaze, and inspired by the endless vitality of old stories remade anew, Restoration takes on Bluebeard, Salvador Elizondo, Juan Rulfo, Angela Carter, Octavio Paz, Mariana Enriquez, and Amparo Dávila to produce a novel of obsession, reclamation, and romance gone very, very wrong.

Jasmina has been hired by her maybe-boyfriend to restore his family home, a grubby, abandoned time capsule where a great artist once lived. As she moves from room to room – scrubbing, scraping, plastering over cracks – the stories inhabiting them awaken, and the lives of the women who came before her begin to overlap with her own. Who is the woman in the photograph? And what secrets linger in that last locked room?

Restoration is a ghost story with porous borders, between Jasmina and these forgotten women, between the novel and us. And the questions Barrera asks may be about what’s behind our own barred door.

Ave Barrera was born in 1980 in Guadalajara, Mexico. She is a writer and editor. Her first novel, Puertas demasiado pequeñas (2016) won the Sergio Galindo Award and was published by Charco Press under the title The Forgery (2022). Her second novel, Restoration, won the 2018 Lipp Prize. Ave has also published short stories and essays in anthologies and electronic media. Since 2019 she coordinates the Vindictas Collection for the National University of Mexico. In 2023 she received a grant from the Kislak Foundation for a writing residency at the University of Florida, USA. Her new novel is Notas desde el interior de la ballena.

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Servische roman, Servische schrijfster

Barbi Marković – Minihorror

Barbi Marković Minihorror recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de roman van de Servische schrijfster die ze in het Duits schreef. Op 11 september 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Koppernik de Nederlandse vertaling van Minihorror. Het boek is geschreven door in het Duits door de uit Servië afkomstige schrijfster Barbi Marković.

Barbi Marković Minihorror recensie

  • “Het is lang geleden dat ik een boek heb gelezen waaraan je zin voor zin zoveel plezier kunt beleven en de meest gruwelijke wendingen en griezelige verschijnselen kunt ervaren.” (Die Zeit)
  • “Ondanks het zich opdringende gevoel van ongemak en het grafische geweld is horror zelden zo opgewekt geweest.” (The Guardian)
  • “De horror in dit boek komt voort uit de alledaagsheid van de gebeurtenissen die worden verteld, en die horror is gruwelijk en verschrikkelijk grappig.” (Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Barbi Marković Minihorror

Minihorror

  • Auteur: Barbi Marković (Servië)
  • Soort boek: roman over Wenen
  • Origineel: Minihorror (2024)
  • Nederlandse vertaling: Lotte Lentes
  • Uitgever: Koppernik
  • Verschijnt: 11 september 2025
  • Omvang: 192 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback
  • Prijs: € 22,50
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de roman over Wenen van Barbi Marković

In Minihorror maken we kennis met Mini en Miki, nieuwkomers in een buitenwijk van Wenen. Ze doen hun best om erbij te horen en alles goed te doen, maar worden desondanks – of juist daarom – voortdurend achtervolgd door catastrofes en monsters.

Er verschijnen maden in een chocoladereep, Mini wordt levend begraven, Miki gaat de strijd aan met een vleesetend monster – en in het volgende hoofdstuk beginnen de gruwelijkheden van voren af aan.

In een volstrekt originele, vlijmscherpe stijl brengt Barbi Marković nachtmerries tot leven, en laat zien wat een nachtmerrie het dagelijks leven kan zijn.

Minihorror is een boek over de horror van het perfecte familieontbijt, over pesten op de werkvloer, over sociale ongelijkheid en over wat het betekent om ergens bij te horen.

Barbi Marković is in 1980 geboren in Belgrado, de hoofdstad van Servië. Ze studeerde Duitse literatuur in Belgrado en Wenen, waar ze nog altijd woont. Sinds ze in 2009 debuteerde met Ausgehen won ze verschillende literaire prijzen, waaronder de Preis der Leipziger Buchmesse voor Minihorror in 2024. Haar roman Die verschissene Zeit verscheen in 2021. In 2024 publiceerde ze haar roman Piksi, die in 2026 bij Koppernik zal verschijnen. Haar nieuwste boek Stehlen, Schimpfen, Spielen verscheen in 2025. Ze schrijft zowel in het Duits als in het Servisch.

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Amerikaanse thrillers, Horror

Audrey Niffenegger – Her Fearfull Symmetry

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry recensie, review en informatie horrorroman uit 2009 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster en kunstenares. Op 4 september 2025 verschijnt bij Vintage Classics Weird Girls de heruitgave van de thriller van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige Audrey Niffenegger. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de horrorthriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry recensie en review

  • “A ghostly love story and a lovely ghost story.” (Tatler)
  • “What is really satisfying about this novel, is its depiction of relationships: the process of grief , the transforming power of love.” (Daily Telegraph)
  • “An original, outrageous, and throroughly enjoyable ghost story.” (Independent)

Audrey Niffenegger Her Fearfull Symmetry

Her Fearfull Symmetry

  • Auteur: Audrey Niffenegger (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse horror uit 2009
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Vintage Classics Weird Girls
  • Verschijnt: 4 september 2025
  • Omvang: 496 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Prijs: £ 9,99 / £ 5,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de horrorroman van Audrey Niffenegger

When Elspeth Noblin dies she leaves her beautiful flat overlooking Highgate Cemetery to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina Poole, on the condition that their mother is never allowed to cross the threshold. But until the solicitor’s letter falls through the door of their suburban American home, either Julia nor Valentina knew their aunt existed.

The twins hope that in London their own, separate, lives can finally begin but they have no idea that they’ve been summoned into a tangle of fraying lives, from the obsessive-compulsive crossword setter who lives above them to their aunt’s mysterious and elusive lover who lives below them and works in the cemetery itself.

As the twins unravel the secrets of their aunt, who doesn’t seem quite ready to leave her flat, even after death, Niffenegger weaves together a delicious and deadly ghost story about love, loss and identity.

Audrey Niffenegger is on 13 Juni 1963 in South Haven, Michigan in the United States. She is a visual artist and writer who lives mostly in Chicago and occasionally in London. She has published six books, including the novels The Time Traveler’s Wife and Her Fearful Symmetry. She helped to found the Columbia College Chicago Center for Book and Paper Arts. Her art has been exhibited by Printworks Gallery in Chicago since 1986. She is a Professor in the Fiction Department of Columbia College. Her recent projects include a ballet, Raven Girl, in collaboration with Wayne McGregor for the Royal Opera House Ballet.

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Ierse roman, Ierse schrijvers

Sheridan Le Fanu – Carmilla

Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla review, recensie en informatie roman uit 1872 van de Ierse schrijver. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de vampierroman Carmilla van de uit Ierland afkomstige schrijver Sheridan Le Fanu. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla review en recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, recensie of review verschijnt van Carmilla, de roman van de Ierse schrijver Sheridan Le Fanu, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Sheridan Le Fanu Carmilla

Carmilla

  • Auteur: Sheridan Le Fanu (Ierland)
  • Soort boek: Ierse vampierroman uit 1872
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: William Collins Classics
  • Verschijnt: 8 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 160 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de Ierse vampierroman uit 1872

When lonely nineteen-year-old Laura welcomes an enigmatic stranger into her home in the heart of the Stryian forest, she has no idea that the beautiful Carmilla is not what she seems. Laura’s childhood nightmares have resurfaced, and a mysterious illness is beginning to take hold as the intimacy between the two women evolves into something more sinister.

First published in 1872, twenty-six years before Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Le Fanu introduced Carmilla, the original female vampire with a taste for innocent young women. Having influenced countless horror stories for over 150 years, this Gothic tale of dark obsession, ancient legend and wayward daughters is a classic of the genre.

Sheridan Le Fanu was born on 28 August 1814 in Dublin. He was an Irish writer, celebrated for his Gothic tales, ghost stories and mystery novels. Le Fanu\’s best-known works in the horror fiction genre include Uncle Silas (1864); his collection of stories In a Glass Darkly (1872); and the vampire novella Carmilla (1872). He died on 7 February 1873 in Dublin, at 58 years age of a heart attack.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers, Dystopische roman, Historische Roman, Horror

Stephen Graham Jones – The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones The Buffalo Hunter Hunter recensie, review en informatie van de inhoud van de historische horrorroman van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 18 maart 2025 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij S&S/Saga Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Stephen Graham Jones. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Stephen Graham Jones The Buffalo Hunter Hunter recensie, review en informatie

  • “A master at blending horror, suspense, and culturally rich stories that are as thought-provoking as they are spine-tingling. Jones’s singular voice and exploration of identity, of trauma and survival, make every page pulse with kinetic urgency.” (David Robertson, author of The Theory of Crows)
  • “A riveting story of heartbreak, death, and revenge, this remarkable work of American fiction, a thought-provoking tale filled with existential terror, unease, and a high body count, transforms, in Jones’ deft hands, from the unapologetic horror novel it most certainly is into a critique of the entire idea of the United States—a critique that, despite the horrors, both real and supernatural, is forcefully infused with both heart and hope.” (Booklist)
  • “While this is a unique vampire story, it is also grief horror, portraying the mourning of a land and a people, inscribing profound sorrow for what was and what can never be again.” (Library Journal)

Stephen Graham Jones The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  • Auteur: Stephen Graham Jones (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische horror
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: S&S/Saga Press
  • Verschijnt: 18 maart 2025
  • Omvang: 448 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $ 29,99 / $ 14,99 / $ 29,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe historische horrorroman van Stephen Graham Jones

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Good Indians is a chilling historical horror novel tracing the life of a vampire who haunts the fields of the Blackfeet reservation looking for justice.

A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that go back to 217 Blackfeet dead in the snow. Told in transcribed interviews by a Blackfeet named Good Stab, who shares the narrative of his peculiar life over a series of confessional visits. This is an American Indian revenge story written by one of the new masters of horror, Stephen Graham Jones.

Stephen Graham Jones is born the 22 january 1972 in midland Texas. He is the author of The Only Good Indians, My Heart Is a Chainsaw, and I Was a Teenage Slasher. He has been an NEA fellowship recipient and a recipient of several awards including the Ray Bradbury Award from the Los Angeles Times, the Bram Stoker Award, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Jesse Jones Award for Best Work of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, the Independent Publishers Award for Multicultural Fiction, and the Alex Award from American Library Association. He is the Ivena Baldwin Professor of English at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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Engeland, Engelse romans, Gothic novel

Horace Walpole – The Castle of Otranto

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de eerst gothic novel ooit uit 1764. Op deze pagina lees je uitgebreide informatie over de roman The Castle of Otranto van de uit Engeland afkomstige schrijver Horace Walpole die verscheen in 1764. er is op dit moment geen vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar, hooguit antiquarisch als De burcht van Otranto.

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto recensie en informatie

  • “Although undeniably melodramatic, it is saved from absurdity by its playful tone. It established both the stock characters of the genre (evil tyrant, virtuous maiden, noble peasant) and its motifs (the supernatural, incest, mistaken identity). By turns lurid, sensational and amusing, it remains an imaginative tour de force.” (The Guardian)

Horace Walpole The Castle of Otranto

The Castle of Otranto

  • Auteur: Horace Walpole (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: gothic novel
  • Taal: Engels
  • Verschenen: 1764
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de eerste gothic novel van Horace Walpole

On the day of his wedding, Conrad, heir to the house of Otranto, is killed in mysterious circumstances. His calculating father Manfred fears that his dynasty will now come to an end and determines to marry his son’s bride himself – despite the fact he is already married. But a series of terrifying supernatural omens soon threaten this unlawful union, as the curse placed on Manfred’s ancestor, who usurped the lawful Prince of Otranto, begins to unfold. First published pseudonymously in 1764, purporting to be an ancient Italian text from the time of the crusades, The Castle of Otranto is a founding work of Gothic fiction. With its compelling blend of sinister portents, tempestuous passions and ghostly visitations, it spawned an entire literary tradition and influenced such writers as Ann Radcliffe and Bram Stoker.

Horace Walpole (24 September 1717, London – 2 March 1797, London), 4th Earl of Orford, was the son of the Whig Prime Minister, Robert Walpole. In 1747 he moved to Strawberry Hill in Twickenham, which he transformed into his “little Gothic castle”. He was at the centre of literary and political society and an arbiter of taste. He is remembered for his witty letters to a wide circle of friends.

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Canadese schrijvers, Canadese thriller, Horror

Nick Cutter – The Queen

Nick Cutter The Queen review, recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Canadese horrorthriller. Op 29 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Gallery Books het nieuwe boek van de uit Canada afkomstige thrillerschrijver Nick Cutter. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Nick Cutter The Queen review, recensie en informatie

  • “This fast-paced and suspenseful story…is one of the most entertaining novels readers will encounter this year…disturbing on every level…Readers will be engulfed by the story from the moment they open the book, while the echoing hum of what they just experienced will buzz around in their heads long after they finish…Cutter is at the top of his game here, providing an intensely visceral and gripping tale.” (Library Journal)
  • “With his breakthrough novel, The Troop, which was one of the most acclaimed horror novels of the last decade, Nick Cutter established himself as a writer of propulsive, muscular, unrelenting journeys into terror. His latest book, The Queen, reaffirms his place as one of the genre’s most entertaining storytellers, delivering a creature feature and the story of a doomed friendship in one unputdownable package…[He] is once again in top form…A must-read for horror fans, for Nick Cutter fans, and for anyone hoping to stay up late with a good scary yarn.” (BookPage)

Nick Cutter The Queen

The Queen

  • Auteur: Nick Cutter (Canada)
  • Soort boek: Canadese horrorthriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Gallery Books
  • Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 384 pagina’s
  • Uitgave:  gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de nieuwe thriller van Nick Cutter

Nick cutter returns with a heart-pounding novel of terror about a young woman searching for her missing friend and uncovering a shocking truth.

On a sunny morning in June, Margaret Carpenter wakes up to find a new iPhone on her doorstep. She switches it on to find a text from her best friend, Charity Atwater. The problem is, Charity’s been missing for over a month. Most people in town—even the police—think she’s dead.

Margaret and Charity have been lifelong friends. They share everything, know the most intimate details about one another…except for the destructive secret hidden from them both. A secret that will trigger a chain of events ending in tragedy, bloodshed, and death. And now Charity wants Margaret to know her story—the real story. In a narrative that takes place over one feverish day, Margaret follows a series of increasingly disquieting breadcrumbs as she forges deeper into the mystery of her best friend—a person she never truly knew at all…

Nick Cutter (real name is Craig Davidson) was born in 1975 in Toronto, Canada). He is the author of the critically acclaimed national bestseller The Troop (which is currently being developed for film with producer James Wan), The Deep, Little Heaven, and The Handyman Method, cowritten with Andrew F. Sullivan. Nick Cutter is the pseudonym for Craig Davidson, whose much-lauded literary fiction includes Rust and Bone, The Saturday Night Ghost Club, and, most recently, the short story collection Cascade. His story “Medium Tough” was selected by author Jennifer Egan for The Best American Short Stories 2014. He lives in Toronto, Canada.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Weird fiction

Gertrude Barrows Bennett – Claimed!

Gertrude Barrows Bennett Claimed recensie, review en informatie boek weird fiction roman uit 1920 van de Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 17 oktober 2024 verschijnt in de reeks Penguin Weird Fiction de herdruk van de roman Amerikaanse schrijfster Gertrude Barrows Bennet. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Gertrude Barrows Bennett Claimed! recensie, review en informatie

  • “The most important female writer of speculative fiction that you’ve probably never heard of.” (Worlds Without End)

Gertrude Barrows Bennett Claimed

Claimed!

  • Auteur: Gertrude Barrows Bennett (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: weird fiction roman uit 1920
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Weird Fiction
  • Verschijnt: 17 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 144 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol

Flaptekst van de weird fiction van Gertrude Barrows Bennett

Woken from his sleep by an urgent request to attend to a new patient, Dr. John Vanaman is soon at the home of Jesse J. Robinson, a wealthy industrialist, struck gravely ill after a struggle with a burglar. The thief was after Robinson’s most prized possession, an item he obsessively guards: a mysterious green box, etched with a single line from an unknown language. Soon, Vanaman and Robinson’s courageous neice, Leilah, are drawn into an odyssey, a voyage toward the box’s ancient, terrifying origin…

The greatest novel by one of the pioneering female voices in horror writing, Gertrude Barrows Bennett’s Claimed! is a masterful intertwining fantasy, philosophy, and terror.

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (18 September 1884, Minneapolis, Minnesota – 2 February 1948, San Francisco, California). Writing under the pseudonym Francis Stevens, her imaginative and adventurous tales, characterised by ancient civilizations, remarkable artefacts, and fearsome supernatural beings, often blurred boundaries between fantasy, science fiction and the darker recesses of the ghost story. A pioneering female author of genre literature, her fantasy and science fiction writing was some of the first by an American woman to be widely published. Her novels Claimed! and The Citadel of Fear remain classic works of Weird Fiction.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Horror

Robert W. Chambers – The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow recensie, review en informatie boek weird fiction horrorverhalen uit 1895 van de Amerikaanse schrijver. Op 17 oktober 2024 verschijnt in de reeks Penguin Weird Fiction de herdruk van het boek met verhalen van Amerikaanse schrijver Robert W. Chambers. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow recensie, review en informatie

  • “A classic . . . a fantastic collection of short stories.” (Guardian)

Robert W. Chambers The King in Yellow

The King in Yellow

  • Auteur: Robert W. Chambers (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: horror uit 1895, weird fiction
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Penguin Weird Fiction
  • Verschijnt: 17 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 112 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het weird fiction boek ui 1895 van Robert W. Chambers

Shot through with an unutterable sense of mystery, paranoia and dread, the King in Yellow is a linked collection of tales that swirl around a single motif: a terrible book that prompts an obsessive madness in all who look upon its pages. From a dystopian New York to the streets of Paris, these narratives offer glimpses and hints of impossible, terrifying revelations. Who is the King Yellow? What is the Yellow Sign? And where might be that ancient and famous city, Carcosa?

Combining expectation-defying horror with decadent description, The King in Yellow has proven to be one of the most durable and brilliant collections of Weird Fiction ever written, inspiring countless authors, from the mythos of H.P. Lovecraft to the fantasy world of George R.R. Martin.

Robert W. Chambers (26 May 1865, Brooklyn, New York – 16 December 1933, New York City) was born in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Chambers enthralled readers with his strange and supernatural stories, most notably in his defining collection, The King in Yellow. Blending seamlessly elements of horror, romance, and the decadence of the fin de siècle period, with a frequent emphasis on the mysterious and the malevolent, Chambers influenced generations of writers, including H.P. Lovecraft and Stephen King, and has proved to be a defining voice in Weird Fiction.

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Engeland, Engelse schrijvers

Algernon Blackwood – Ancient Sorceries

Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries recensie, review en informatie boek met weird fiction spookverhalen uit 1927. Op 17 oktober 2024 verschijnt in de reeks Penguin weird fiction de herdruk van het boek met horrorverhalen van Engelse schrijver Algernon Blackwood. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries recensie, review en informatie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking review of recensie verschijnt van Ancient Sorceries, het boek uit 1927 met spookverhalen van Algernon Blackwood, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

Algernon Blackwood Ancient Sorceries

Ancient Sorceries

The Adventures of John Silence

  • Auteur: Algernon Blackwood (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: weird fiction spookverhalen uit 1927
  • Uitgever: Penguin Weird Fiction
  • Verschijnt: 17 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 256 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: paperback / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek met spookverhalen van Algernon Blackwood

Welcome to the casebook of Dr John Silence, Physician Extraordinary. After a long and severe training – five years he was gone from the face of the earth, travelling who knows where – Silence returned to England as the greatest occult detective of the age. When he takes up an investigation, when he comes to the aid of some poor, frightened soul, you can be sure it will lead to the most strange and terrifying of circumstances: from pagan magic in remote France to battles with ancient Egyptian fire spirits, and from geometry defying alternate dimensions to the most macabre of haunted houses.

Some of the first works written by Algernon Blackwood – one of the twentieth century’s greatest ghost story writers – these John Silence tales are a visionary blend of horror, fantasy and science fiction, and remain today as some of pinnacle achievements of Weird Fiction.

Algernon Blackwood (14 March 1869, Shooter’s Hill, Kent, England  – 10 December 1951, London) was one of the most influential horror writers of the twentieth century. Transcending the boundaries of conventional writing in the genre, his tales are celebrated for their atmospheric descriptions, psychological depth, and their deep interest in phenomena outside of conventional human experience. A lover of nature, his writing is imbued with a mysticism and awe for his surroundings, and much of his work is concerned with the beauty and terror to be found in moutainscapes and dark forests. Blackwood’s influence extends beyond horror literature, inspiring authors across various genres and with his evocative storytelling and philosophical insight.

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