Resultados para "Beyond the Door" en Literatura y ficción

Step into the unsettling world of Philip K. Dick's "Beyond the Door," now available as an immersive audiobook experience. This haunting short story follows a peculiar cuckoo clock with an uncanny consciousness and the tense domestic drama that unfolds around it. When Larry gifts his wife Doris a charming cuckoo clock, he's unaware of the strange bond forming between them. As Larry's jealousy grows and tensions escalate, listeners will be drawn into a tale where ordinary objects harbor extraordinary sentience.

When Alexander Flora Chisholm inherited a centuries-old Inn, the Wayfarers Tavern, on the edge of a beautiful Loch in the Scottish Highlands, she had no idea what being its custodian would entail. The Tavern changes her life from the dreary drudge of 1990s London, to the turbulent times of 18th-century Scotland, leading up to the Jacobite rising of 1745, and beyond. Follow her heroic adventures alongside a whole cartload of newly acquired family members of Clan Chisholm. How does a young 20th-century lassie cope with 18th-century life and the struggle to stay alive?

In "Beyond the Door", a man buys a cuckoo clock for his wife who has always wanted one. When he catches her cheating on him, the man throws his wife out of the house with her lover. Though he never really cared for the clock, he keeps winding it because he dislikes the silence. But the cuckoo clock, who preferred the wife's company, begins to plot against its owner.

The house at Herron Pond is no stranger to tragedy. Accidental death. A devastating fire. Suicide. Are the reports of supernatural activity the persistent gossip of visitors and staff? Or are the chilling tales true?

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890 – 1937), who wrote as H. P. Lovecraft, was an American author who achieved fame after his death for his groundbreaking works of horror fiction. In "From Beyond" a maniacal scientist develops an extraordinary machine which enables humans to tap in to a range of additional senses which allow him to perceive whole new dimensions of the cosmos.

Lighthearted, humorous storytelling from a seasoned traveler firmly grounded now in rural Southern Appalachia. With a love of character and community, Rouse delights listeners with subtle details of relationships, adjusting to country life, wisdom of nature and the landscape of domestic negotiations. Americana with a twist. Regional yet global.