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In these brief, acid-sharp stories of love, marriage and family from one of Denmark’s most celebrated writers, the ordinary events of everyday life – a wife anxious not to wake her husband, a little boy losing his father’s beloved knife, a woman’s obsessive longing for a yellow silk umbrella – become dark and disconcerting. Here […]

In 1961, a Douglas DC-6B aeroplane transporting the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjöld, disappeared over the Congolese jungle at the height of the Cold War. Soon afterward, Hammarskjöld was

The dead wreak revenge on the living, paintings come alive, spectral brides possess mortal men and a priest devours human flesh in these chilling Japanese ghost stories retold by a master of the supernatural. Lafcadio Hearn drew on the phantoms and ghouls of traditional Japanese folklore – including the headless ‘rokuro-kubi’, the monstrous goblins ‘jikininki’ […]

1959 mördas den förmögne farmaren Herb Clutter och hans familj på Clutters gård i Kansas. Den 30 december arresteras de nyligen frigivna straffångarna Dick Hickock och Perry Smith för mordet. Drygt fem år senare hängs de. Dessa data markerar riktpunkterna i ett massmord som framstår som lika oundvikligt som meningslöst. Med kallt blod växer från […]