Örebro bibliotek

På Hemmet bredvid ån bor det en hel hög med människor. Översten, överstinnan som inte är hans, prostparet, fröken Johansson, docenten - ja, listan kan göras lång. Och ingen av dem ...

Can a man lose his mind because of a braid of hair? Can people come back from the dead? "The Head of Hair" tells the story of one poor man who gets so obsessed with a hairpiece tha ...

B.J. Harrison reads one of Edgar Allan Poe's classic short stories 'The Masque of the Red Death'. Prince Prospero and 1,000 other nobles have taken refuge at a castle-like abbey to ...

A prisoner arrives at a trial before the Spanish Inquisition and is condemned to death. Upon his conviction, he faints and finds himself in a horrendous cell to fight off death. St ...

B.J. Harrison visits Edgar Allan Poe's grim horror story, 'The Cask of Amontillado'. Montresor is a man who has been insulted, and he does not take this lightly. Seeking revenge on ...

B.J. Harrison reads 'The Purloined Letter' by Edgar Allan Poe, which is a story of an unusual mystery that needs to be solved. A sensitive letter has been stolen from the queen's b ...

In 'The System of Doctor Tarr and Pofessor Fether' from the 19th century nothing is quite what it seems. During his tour of southern France, our narrator visits a local mental inst ...

Egaeus is a man who can get lost in matters with 'nervous intensity of interest'. He is about to marry his cousin Berenice, whose health is deteriorating until the only part the di ...

Is there anyone more associated with a raven than the writer Edgar Allan Poe, the master of the macabre? His famous poem 'The Raven', published in 1845, presents us with a speaking ...

B.J. Harrison tells Edgar Allan Poe's story 'The Tell-Tale Heart', where our narrator has committed the crime of murdering an older man. He does not consider himself a madman, and ...

"There was but a single forlorn hope, and I took it." After being unwillingly transported back to Earth, John Carter finally finds a way back to Mars, exited to be reunited with hi ...

"He's more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." In the winter of 1801, a man named Lockwood rents a home in Northern England. When he meets ...

Lady Gwendolen drops her precious doll Nina and breaks it. Mr. Puckler, a doll doctor, mends the doll and sends his daughter Else to return Nina to her owner. But times passes and ...

"You see, this is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding--it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl."Ardita, a beautiful ...

Mrs. Pratt mysteriously dies in her sleep after a fight with her husband. He thought that she had tried to poison him. But maybe it was the other way around? After a while Mr. Prat ...

A man visits his friend, a Scandinavian artist who lives in an old Italian villa. They go out on the balcony, enjoying the calm and beautiful night. Then the guest suddenly sees a ...

It is the day after Christmas. Colonel Adams and his daughter are throwing a party. The neighbor, the girl’s uncle, her godfather and the local priest Father Brown are invited. The ...

Latimer is convinced that he has a special power. According to him, he can see into the future and he can also read people's mind. Actually everybody’s but one; his brother’s wife ...

Anodos is a young boy who finds a large and mystical castle with a big and impressive library. The library hides the secret story of the poor Cosmo who was a student at the univers ...

What is the worst thing that can happen in a cemetery? "The Dead and the Countess" gives one truly horrific description which will keep you at the edge of your seat until the very ...

Ralph Orth is an American novelist who decides to move to the English countryside. There he buys a marvellous estate called Chillingsworth. Inside Chillingsworth’s gallery, Orth fi ...

The 1990’s were a turbulent decade in Sweden - the country had barely recovered from the shockwaves of the still unsolved Palme murder when the economic crisis hit with full force. ...

A man keeps a disembodied hand attached to his wall. One night he is found murdered, a finger sticking out of his mouth, and the hand is missing from the wall. Later a hand with on ...

A man’s beloved woman suddenly dies of pneumonia. He cannot cope with the loss and spends a whole night wandering around the cemetery searching for her. However, what he finds and ...

Flera bomber har sprängts i Stockholm. När en bomb sprängs på Strandvägen, i en av Sveriges dyraste bostadsrättsföreningar, och dödar flera människor, däribland barn, kallar statsm ...