Unerwartete Ereignisse machen diese elf Geschichten um den berühmten Meisterdetektiv und seinen Helfer Dr. Watson zu einem besonderen Lesevergnügen. Sherlock Holmes berichtet von seinem ersten Fall und verwickelt sich in ein verhängnisvolles Kräftemessen mit dem Verbrechergenie Professor Moriarty.
Von einem Spaziergang im Moor kehrt Sir Charles, Herr auf Baskerville Hall, verstört und zu Tode erschrocken zurück. Wenig später findet man ihn - tot. Wird der unheimliche Fluch von Baskerville auch seinen einzigen Erben treffen? Sherlock Holmes kombiniert - und verhindert ein teuflisches Komplott...
Mary Shelley’s haunting adventure about ambition and modernity run amok. Obsessed by creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life by electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear. This chilling gothic tale, begun when Mary Shelley was just nineteen years old, would become the world’s most famous work of horror fiction and remains a devastating exploration of the limits of human creativity.
It was just a smooth round metal ball, less than a metre in diameter. Although it was still hot from its journey through the huge nothingness of space, it looked quite harmless. But what was it, exactly? A meteor, perhaps - just one of those pieces of rock from outer space that occasionallyfall down on to the planet Earth. But meteors don't usually make strange hissing sounds . . . In this collection of four of his famous science-fiction stories, John Wyndham creates visions of the future that make us think carefully about the way we live now.