Älvkarleby folkbibliotek

A Daughter of the Snows is Jack London's first novel, published in 1902. Set in the Yukon, it tells the story of Frona Welse, a strong and interesting heroine, "a Stanford graduate ...

Satan's Diary is a novel by Russian author Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev, an acclaimed Russian playwright and writer of short fiction, who was noted for the darkness in his work. Sa ...

The Gray Phantom is a detective novel by American author Herman Landon. A woman is apparently murdered in a New York auditorium under very suspicious circumstances one evening duri ...

Gargoyles is a novel by Academy Award winner, American screenwriter Ben Hecht. The author, Ben Hecht, was a prolific writer as well as a renowned screenwriter, producer, and direct ...

The Captain of the Pole Star, and Other Tales is a collection of early Sir Arthur Conan Doyle short stories. This collection includes stories of mystery, comedy, shipwrecks and fan ...

Against The Grain, or Against Nature is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans. “THE BOOK THAT DORIAN GRAY LOVED AND THAT INSPIRED OSCAR WILDE”. Such is the enticing epig ...

The Three Impostors; or, The Transmutations is an episodic horror novel by Welsh writer Arthur Machen. The novel comprises several weird tales and culminates in a final denouement ...

The Hill of Dreams is a supernatural novel written by Welsh author Arthur Machen.  The novel recounts the life of a young man, Lucian Taylor, focusing on his dreamy childhood in ru ...

The Angels of Mons (or The Bowmen and other Legends of the War) is a collection of stories written by Welsh author Arthur Machen. In September 1914, two months after the outbreak o ...

The Great God Pan is a horror novella written by Welsh author Arthur Machen. On publication it was widely denounced by the press as degenerate and horrific because of its decadent ...

More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary is a collection of ghost stories by English author M. R. James.M. R. James wrote many of his ghost stories to be read aloud in the long tradition ...

The Five Jars is the only novel written by English author M. R. James, who is best known for his ghost stories.  The Five Jars is a peculiarly surreal fantasy originally written fo ...

Hagar of the Pawn-Shop is a mystery novel by American author Fergus Hume. Hagar Stanley, a beautiful young Gypsy, is driven by sexual harassment to leave her tribe and seek refuge ...

The Mystery of a Hansom Cab is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. “On the twenty-seventh day of July, at the hour of twenty minutes to two o'clock in the morning, a ...

Red Money is a mystery novel by American author Fergus Hume. Murder occurs at an English country estate following the arrival of a caravan of Gypsies temporarily camping on the gro ...

The Lady from Nowhere is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. A mysterious woman is found murdered in a yellow boudoir. Who is she and where does she come from? Detect ...

The Opal Serpent is a detective novel by American author Fergus Hume. An old pawnbroker is found strangled with his lips pinned together with an opal serpent broach. He has a beaut ...

The Markets of Paris also known under the title The Belly of Paris, is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The Markets of Paris is a remarkable work, and is the one which Zola cal ...

Jean Gourdon's Four Days is a short novel by French author Émile Zola. Jean Gourdon's Four Days deserves to rank among the very best things to which Zola has signed his name. It is ...

The Fortune of the Rougons (“La Fortune des Rougon”), originally published in 1871, is a novel by French author Émile Zola. The Fortune of the Rougons is the first novel in Émile Z ...

His Masterpiece (“L’Oeuvre”) is a novel by French author Émile Zola. His Masterpiece is a fictionalized account of the Parisian art world in the mid 19th century, and the emerging ...

The Fearsome Island is an adventure fantasy novel by Albert Kinross.  The full title is The Fearsome Island - Being a Modern Rendering of the Narrative of one Silas Fordred, Master ...

To the Lighthouse is a 1927 novel by Virginia Woolf. The novel centres on the Ramsays and their visits to the Isle of Skye in Scotland between 1910 and 1920. Following and extendin ...

Falcons of Narabedla is a science fiction novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley set in the universe of her Darkover series.  The novel concerns a person who is transported into the future ...

The Planet Savers is a science fiction novel by American writer Marion Zimmer Bradley, part of her Darkover series.  The Planet Savers takes place at least 152 years after the even ...