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Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.

It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik’s Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. 

Four families wake up one morning in their trailer on an ordinary campsite. However, during the night, something strange has happened. Everything outside the camping grounds has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of '60s pop icon Peter Himmelstrand. As the holiday-makers try to come to terms with what has happened, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and secret desires.

One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their sixyearold daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears - either into thin air or under thin ice - leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realizes that people are not telling him all they know....

It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last—revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door—a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night.

Julia Malmros is thriving. A former police officer making her way in the world of crime fiction, she’s turning popularity into fame by writing the next book in a world-renowned suspense series. To help her research, Julia connects with Kim Ribbing. More hacker than man, Kim bears a dark past that’s the very antithesis of the promising future she has planned for herself. They share an undeniable spark—yet it’s likely to implode. That’s the least of Julia’s worries. Hounded by publicity, Julia retreats to her cottage in the Stockholm archipelago.

Kim Ribbing is a peculiar man—a skilled hacker, but otherwise reticent and fiercely private. Crime writer Julia Malmros never expected more than a working relationship with him, but all that changed the moment they locked eyes. Now there’s something between them just as thrilling as the mysteries they investigate together. And just as dangerous too. Because Kim has secrets. Enemies. A murky past. And it’s all coming to a head in the confines of his basement.

John Ajvide Lindqvist's novel, a huge best seller in his native Sweden, is a unique and brilliant fusion of social novel and vampire legend. And a deeply moving fable about rejection, friendship and loyalty. Oskar and Eli. In very different ways, they were both victims. Which is why, against the odds, they became friends. And how they came to depend on one another, for life itself. Oskar is a 12-year-old boy living with his mother on a dreary housing estate at the city's edge. Eli is the young girl who moves in next door.

Under en pause i opsætningen af Hamlet på Dramaten i Stockholm tager en kvindelig selvmordsbomber over fyrre mennesker med sig i døden, og et nationalt traume er skabt. Julia Malmros, der har mistet sin bedste veninde i bombeattentatet, er genindtrådt i politiet og deltager i efterforskningen til stor fortrydelse for sin eksmand, politikommissær Johnny Munter. Samtidig har Kim Ribbing besluttet sig for at bygge sin sadistiske farfars herregård om til et flygtningecenter, men efter et attentat mod bygningen, beslutter også han sig for at gå ind i efterforskningen på sin helt egen måde.

Die sechsjährige Maja verschwindet spurlos auf dem gefrorenen Meer. kurz zuvor sah sie etwas auf dem Eis. Für ihre Eltern beginnt ein fürchterlicher Albtraum...

In Blackeberg, einem Vorort von Stockholm: Nachdem jedoch die Leiche eines kleinen Jungen entdeckt wird, verbreitet sich in Windeseile die Furcht, dass ein Ritualmörder sein Unwesen treibt...

Stockholm, August 2002: Nach einer extremen Hitzewelle legt sich ein elektrisches Feld über die Stadt. Lampen können nicht mehr gelöscht, Maschinen nicht mehr ausgeschaltet werden. Die Menschen leiden unter Kopfschmerzen, ein Chaos droht. Doch plötzlich ist alles wieder vorüber. Oder doch nicht?

A Blackeberg, periferia ovest di Stoccolma, il ritrovamento del cadavere completamente dissanguato di un ragazzo segna l’inizio di una lunga scia di morte. Mentre nel quartiere si diffonde la paura, l’introverso dodicenne Oskar conosce Eli, una coetanea che si è appena trasferita nella zona. Ma c’è qualcosa di strano in lei, il viso smunto, i capelli scuri e i grandi occhi. Emana uno strano odore, non ha mai freddo, se salta sembra volare e, soprattutto, esce di casa soltanto la notte.

Plötzlich ist es wieder da. Beobachtet sie. Nimmt sie ins Visier. Schickt seine Vorboten aus. Kommt immer näher, um sie zu holen. Seit ihrer Kindheit wird Vera von einem unheimlichen Geräusch verfolgt. Jahrelang konnte sie es erfolgreich ausblenden, aber plötzlich ist es lauter und präsenter als je zuvor. Veras Leben entgleitet ihr immer mehr, bis auch das Leben ihrer Familie in Gefahr ist. Eine spannende Kurzgeschichte vom Horror-Experten John Ajvide Lindqvist...

In September 1985, 19-year-old John Lindqvist moves into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange is going on in the building's basement - and the price of entry is just a little blood. I Always Find You is a horror story - as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist's best-selling novels. It's also a book about being young and lonely, about making friends and growing up. It's about magic and the intensity of human connection - and a society's communal responsibility for a devastating act of political violence.

Whatever happened to Oskar and Eli? And what became of the beleaguered families in Handling the Undead? Find out in Let the Old Dreams Die. In other tales from this collection, a woman finds a dead body and decides to keep it for herself, a customs officer has a mysterious gift that enables her to see what others hide, and a man believes he knows how to deceive death. These are the stories of John Ajvide Lindqvist’s rich imagination. They are about love and death, and what we do when the two collide and the monsters emerge.

Blendend helles Licht und Meeresrauschen, sanftes Gläserklingen: Mittsommer auf einer Schäreninsel. Während Astrids Vater, der erfolgreiche Unternehmer Olof Helander, seine Gäste unterhält, schwankt sie zwischen Scham und Langeweile. Da nähert sich lautlos ein Schatten von der offenen See. Innerhalb von Sekunden wird die ganze Festgesellschaft ausgelöscht. Wie durch ein Wunder überlebt das Mädchen. Aber jetzt ist sie allein. Und in Gefahr.

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There’s a heat wave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up.... David always knew his wife was far too good for him. But he never knew how lost he’d be without her until tonight when her car hit an elk. Now she’s gone and he’s alone. But when he goes to identify her body, she begins to move. It’s terrifying, but it gives David a strange kind of hope.

"Das dunkle Echo der Liebe" spielt unmittelbar nach John Ajvide Lindqvists erfolgreichen Debütroman "So finster die Nacht" und erzählt von der außergewöhnlichen Liebe zwischen Karin und Stefan. Karin ist Polizistin und ermittelt in einem ungewöhnlichen Fall: Ein Irrer ermordete in einem Schwimmbad drei Kinder und entführte ein weiteres. Bei den Ermittlungen lernt sie ihren zukünftigen Mann Stefan kennen. Das Paar verbindet eine unglaubliche Lebensgeschichte und sie führen eine glückliche Ehe.

"Under hösten 2016 drog en självmordsvåg genom Stockholms undre värld." Så inleds John Ajvide Lindqvists roman "X : Den sista platsen", den avslutande delen i trilogin som inleddes med "Himmelstrand" och "Rörelsen". En gång var kriminaljournalisten Tommy T hela Sveriges älskling, men på senare år har hans stjärna dalat. Undersökningen av självmorden ska bli hans upprättelse. Tillsammans med sin hund Hagge nosar han sig djupare in i mysteriet kring den undflyende gestalten "X" som tycks ligga bakom allting. Spåren leder till ett enormt parti kokain samt till ett oändligt fält med kortklippt gräs och en himmel utan sol.