10 Ergebnisse.

Quando Alan Querdilion, un ufficiale della Marina britannica, si risveglia nel letto di uno strano ospedale sono passati centodue anni, il mondo non è più lo stesso e lui si ritrova imprigionato in un incubo. I nazisti hanno vinto la seconda guerra mondiale e regnano incontrastati. I prigionieri-schiavi vengono allevati e trasformati nella selvaggina di un feroce sovrano. Un terrore remoto e indicibile si impossessa lentamente...

A beautiful, eerie novella from a master stylist of oneiric supernatural horror. The Doll Maker is a lost gem which explores Sarban's favourite themes of oppressor vs oppressed and the mysterious, ineffable strangeness of our lives and environments. The imagery of the puppet show in particular is unforgettable. (Jim Smith) About the author: John William Wall (6 November 1910 - 11 April 1989), pen name Sarban, was a British writer and diploma...

Three novels by the master of the eerie.Ringstones: Pagan rituals in the rural English countryside. The Sound of His Horn: an alternate future... if the Nazis had won the war.The Doll Maker: Young Clare Lydgate escapes her Oxford school grounds into a world of mystery.

The story of a young girl caught in the dreadful fascination of willing slavery, the agony of a conscious victim who cannot escape the mordant mastery of an egomaniac practicing unknown horrors.

The legendary 1952 dystopian/alternative history novel about British naval lieutenant Alan Querdillon, who becomes a POW during the Battle of Crete during World War II, and awakens in a Nazi-controlled world 102 years after the war. He is hunted by a "Reichsforester" and takes refuge with genetically mutilated "undesirables"-one of the first fictional descriptions of genetic manipulation.

Buried deep in the reaches of vast antiquity lie the ancient customs, the vicious "games, " the laws of the privileged lord and his enslaved minions. Sarban's preoccupation with the remote brooding past which, in certain circumstances, refuses to die, but jealously invades the present through the life and sanity of just such a healthy young animal as the heroine of Ringstones.

The legendary 1952 dystopian/alternative history novel about British naval lieutenant Alan Querdillon, who becomes a POW during the Battle of Crete during World War II, and awakens in a Nazi-controlled world 102 years after the war. He is hunted by a "Reichsforester" and takes refuge with genetically mutilated "undesirables"-one of the first fictional descriptions of genetic manipulation.

Buried deep in the reaches of vast antiquity lie the ancient customs, the vicious "games, " the laws of the privileged lord and his enslaved minions. Sarban's preoccupation with the remote brooding past which, in certain circumstances, refuses to die, but jealously invades the present through the life and sanity of just such a healthy young animal as the heroine of Ringstones.

The story of a young girl caught in the dreadful fascination of willing slavery, the agony of a conscious victim who cannot escape the mordant mastery of an egomaniac practicing unknown horrors.

Quando Alan Querdilion, un ufficiale della Marina britannica, si risveglia nel letto di uno strano ospedale sono passati centodue anni, il mondo non è più lo stesso e lui si ritrova imprigionato in un incubo. I nazisti hanno vinto la seconda guerra mondiale e regnano incontrastati. I prigionieri-schiavi vengono allevati e trasformati nella selvaggina di un feroce sovrano. Un terrore remoto e indicibile si impossessa lentamente di Alan: è "il t...