Rutakko-kirjastot

A gold prospector Mason, his wife Ruth and their friend Malemute Kid have noticed that their dogs are getting vicious – the dogs watch every food bite they take enviously. Life of ...

From time immemorial, men have trembled and withered before the power of the femme fatale. “Ligeia” is a story about a man, whose meeting with a strange, beautiful, and overly inte ...

C. Auguste Dupin, the amateur detective from “The Murders in the Rue Morgue” and “The Mystery of Marie Roget” returns for the last time to solve a mystery involving a stolen letter ...

Inspired by Poe’s own tragic life, the short story clearly presages Freud’s method of psychoanalysis. In a very Fight-club-like plot and situations, “William Wilson” is a journey w ...

"Halloa! Below there!"Unable to sleep one cold winter’s night, a gentleman wanders aimlessly around the countryside and comes across the dark mouth of a railway tunnel. There he sp ...

“The silence was unbroken. I looked round, and the five couriers were gone: so noiselessly that the ghostly mountains might have absorbed them into its eternal snows.”Thought recen ...

“It is a grand thing to be mad”A rich, self-confessed madman meets a poor girl and, wishing to marry her, he puts on a “normal” persona and a fake smile. The girl’s family pushes h ...

“How do you do, ma'am?" said the captain. "I am very glad to see you. I have come a long way to see you.”Who hasn’t dreamt of finding an old bottle between rocks on a beach somewhe ...

When Mr. Julius Slinkton walks into Mr. Sampson’s insurance office to fetch some forms for his friend, Sampson has a strange suspicion that something isn’t quite right. And when Sl ...

“Can you suppose there's any harm in looking as cheerful and being as cheerful as our poor circumstances will permit?"Nell is a 14-year-old orphan girl who lives with her caring gr ...

After beating up a little boy on Christmas Eve – as you do – Gabriel Grub, a grumpy and mean-spirited gravedigger, goes to dig a grave in the churchyard. His work is interrupted wh ...

Emil Gluck was a scientific genius, who had just gone to the electric chair because of the terrible, terrible things he had done between the years 1933 and 1941. However, life had ...

Ihmisten välisistä seuraleikeistä ja totuuden hetkistäTove Janssonin novellikokoelma Seuraleikki vuodelta 1991 sisältää 13 kirkasta ja kiteytynyttä tarinaa ihmisiin kohdistuvista o ...

Conan ja rautapaholainen on Robert E. Howard fantasianovelli, jossa seikkailee Conan, maailman mahtavin ja kuuluisin barbaari. Niin yliluonnolliset olennot kuin kierot ihmisetkin s ...

Conan ja jumala maljassa on Robert E. Howard fantasianovelli, jossa seikkailee Conan, maailman mahtavin ja kuuluisin barbaari. Niin yliluonnolliset olennot kuin kierot ihmisetkin s ...

Conan ja hämärän Xuthal on Robert E. Howard fantasianovelli, jossa seikkailee Conan, maailman mahtavin ja kuuluisin barbaari. Niin yliluonnolliset olennot kuin kierot ihmisetkin sa ...

"Pommeja, paukkuja, partioretkiä" -teoksen pääosassa ovat "Kinalaksi" nimetyn korsun sotilaat. Humoristissävytteiset tarinat kuvaavat värikkäästi Kinalan sotilaiden pulmia talvisod ...

Miten käy, kun muukalainen onnistuu varastamaan laboratoriosta koeputken, joka sisältää koleraa? Entä kun tuntematon peto hyökkää tutkijan kimppuun Borneolla sijaitsevassa tähtitor ...

Fettes and his friends meet for a drink in the local inn. Everything goes well, until the famous doctor Wolfe Macfarlane enters to treat a sick patient. Fettes gets very upset when ...

Basset is an English scientist who has been working hard in order to find a mystical, large butterfly species in the jungle of Guadalcanal. However, soon Basset is not so intereste ...

After her alcoholic husband dies in an accident Mrs. Lirriper starts taking in lodgers to make ends meet. A wide cast of delightful characters breathe new life into the house, but ...

Everybody hates the refreshment room at the junction, it’s terrible. But the staff is convinced that they’re running a great operation. When their boss returns from abroad to repor ...

The man is addicted to morphine, and can think of nothing but death. Only morphine has made his life barely tolerable. He is in this fragile mental state because of the things that ...

Ulthar is a city in which it is forbidden to kill cats. But it was not always the case – years ago there was an old cotter and his wife who enjoyed trapping and killing the cats of ...

Randolph Carter is not sure what has happened to his closest friend Harley Warren. The two of them decided to visit an old cemetery in a swamp, but something did not go as planned. ...