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GASTON LEROUX (1868-1927) est né à Paris, mais il grandit en Normandie et c´est au lycée de Caen qu´il obtiendra son baccalauréat de lettres. Ensuite il revient à Paris pour devenir avocat en 1890, métier qu´il exercera pendant trois ans, tout en rédigeant des comptes rendus de procès pour...

Das Werk, das aus einer Vorrede und drei „Abhandlungen“ besteht, gehört zu den einflussreichsten Schriften Nietzsches. Er legte hier keine Aphorismen vor wie in den meisten anderen seiner Werke, sondern längere, systematische Texte mit durchaus wissenschaftlichem Anspruch: Er stellt darin soziologische,...

Sommario: Il turno Il fu Mattia Pascal Così è (se vi pare) Enrico IV Uno, nessuno, e centomila Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore La giara

Die Welt der fliegenden Händler ist ein hartes Pflaster für jedermann, der damit seinen Lebensunterhalt verdienen will. Sprachliche Gewandtheit, ein Gespür für die Wünsche der Kundschaft und eine Prise Humor im Erstellen eines Angebots gehören zu den unmittelbaren Voraussetzungen, welche diese...

"Cool Air" is a short story by the American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in March 1926 and published in the March 1928 issue of Tales of Magic and Mystery. The narrator offers a story to explain why a "draught of cool air" is the most detestable thing to him....

"Loss of Breath" is a horror short story by Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849). It was first published in 1832.

"The Nameless City" is a horror story written by H. P. Lovecraft in January 1921 and first published in the November 1921 issue of the amateur press journal The Wolverine. It is often considered the first Cthulhu Mythos story. The Nameless City of the story's title is an ancient ruin located somewhere in the deserts of the Arabian Peninsula and is older than any human civilization

The Road is an autobiographical memoir by Jack London, first published in 1907. It is London's account of his experiences as a hobo in the 1890s, during the worst economic depression the United States had experienced up to that time.[1] He describes his experiences hopping freight trains, "holding...

At the Mountains of Madness is a novella by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931 and originally serialized in the February, March and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories. It has been reproduced in numerous collections since Lovecraft's death. Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi...

The figure of my wife came in... it came straight towards the bed... its wide eyes were open and looked at me with love unspeakable' Edith Nesbit, best known as the author of The Railway Children and other children's classics, was also the mistress of the ghost story and tales of terror. She was able...

"The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar" is a short story by American author Edgar Allan Poe about a mesmerist who puts a man in a suspended hypnotic state at the moment of death. An example of a tale of suspense and horror, it is also, to a certain degree, a hoax, as it was published without...

Sailors kill a 50-foot creature at sea after a lengthy battle. The creature bears strange anatomical irregularities such as a single large eye and rudimentary forelegs and six-toed feet in place of pectoral fins. After inspection by marine biologists, it is revealed to be just a juvenile. The captain...

In H.P. Lovecraft's, "The Dunwich Horror", we are told the story of Wilbur Whateley, the son of a deformed albino mother and an unknown father (alluded to in passing by the mad Old Whateley as "Yog-Sothoth"), and the strange events surrounding his birth and precocious development....

Los pequeños poemas en prosa, también conocido como El spleen de París es una colección de 50 pequeños poemas escritos en prosa poética. La melancolía, el horror al paso del tiempo, el deseo de infinito, la crítica corrosiva contra la religión y la moral, así como la burla contra los ideales...