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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 […]

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