John Ajvide Lindqvist

"From the author of the international and New York Times bestseller Let the Right One In (Let Me In) comes this stunning and terrifying book which begins when a man's six-year-old daughter vanishes.One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While the couple explore the lighthouse, Maja disappears -- either into thin air or under thin ice -- leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to the island to regroup. He slowly realises that people are not telling him all they know; even his own mother, it seems, is keeping secrets. What is happening in Domaro, and what power does the sea have over the town's inhabitants? As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath"--

Harbor

Ebba Segerberg

A Novel

Let the Right One In

Kaspar Colling Nielsen

Emmi Itäranta

Karin Tidbeck

Hannu Rajaniemi

Johanna Sinisalo

Tone Almhjell

Alexander Dan Vilhjálmsson

Thore Hansen

Johann Thorsson

Tor Åge Bringsværd

Maria Haskins

Margrét Helgadóttir  (Editor)

Jakob Drud

Lene Kaaberbø

Rakel Helmsdal

The first true celebration of contemporary Nordic science fiction, fantasy and horror!

A Unique Speculative Fiction Collection From The Nordic Countries

Storytelling has been a major force in the Nordic countries for thousands of years, renowned for its particular sense of dark humour, featuring pacts with nature and a view of the worlds you seldom find in other places.

Perhaps it is the freezing cold winter? The closeness to the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic? Maybe it’s the huge ancient forests...

Most have heard about Nordic crime fiction with its dark noir flare or the Icelandic Sagas. This anthology combines all that is unique about Nordic speculative fiction, from the darkest dystopian science fiction to terrifying horror. From the rational to the eccentric, these stories combine a deep sense of place with social criticism, themes of loneliness and the concern for humanity's impact on the wilderness.

Featuring 15 stories from the best contemporary speculative authors from Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, and The Faroe Islands, including John Ajvide Lindqvist, Hannu Rajaniemimany, Tor Åge Bringsværd and more, many of which are appearing in English for the very first time. 

Nordic Visions: The Best of Nordic Speculative Fiction

Let me in

Wolfskinder

Let Me In

Įsileisk mane

Ať vejde ten pravý

tio berättelser

Pappersväggar

Låt den rätte komma in

From the bestselling author of Let the Right One In, comes John Ajvide Lindqvist’s most twisted thriller yet

I Am the Tiger

Exibido pela primeira vez no Brasil na 33a Mostra Internacional de Cinema de São Paulo, em 2009, o filme sueco Deixa ela entrar é um fenômeno cult. Conquistou prêmios em mais de quarenta festivais pelo mundo e foi refilmado por Hollywood (Deixe-me entrar é a versão americana, de 2010). Concebida por John Ajvide Lindqvist, a história que deu origem ao filme foi publicada em 2004 na Suécia, onde se tornou best-seller instantâneo, lançada em mais de 30 países, e agora é publicada no Brasil pela Globo Livros. Trata-se de uma das mais perturbadoras ficções de terror dos últimos tempos. Grande parte de seu impacto se deve à originalidade com que Lindqvist aborda a seara do vampirismo. Vários elementos dessa literatura estão presentes – a começar pelo título, que faz referência à crendice de que vampiros só podem entrar em lugares para os quais são convidados –, porém ambientados no mais cru realismo. No enredo, Oskar, um garoto de doze anos, vive com a mãe no subúrbio de Estocolmo, na década de 1980. Solitário e alvo de bullying na escola, passa o tempo lendo e colecionando notícias sobre serial killers e planejando se vingar de seus perseguidores. No entanto sua rotina é alterada quando uma garota de doze anos, Eli, se muda para o apartamento ao lado. Uma profunda identificação aproxima o menino a Eli, ao mesmo tempo em que a vizinhança passa a ser assolada por uma onda de mortes misteriosas. Muito mais que sustos, o livro de Lindqvist desperta os horrores de quem tem de passar da infância para a maturidade em circunstâncias adversas e em um cenário opressivo. Com habilidade, o autor recorre a um registro naturalista, temperado de referências à cultura pop, para desenvolver uma história em que os medos são despertados tanto por elementos sobrenaturais quanto pela realidade concreta.

Deixa ela entrar

I Always Find You

John Ajvide Lindqvist has taken the horror world by storm. His first novel, Let the Right One In, has been made into critically acclaimed films in both Sweden and in the U.S (as Let Me In). His second novel, Handling the Undead, is beloved by horror lovers everywhere. Now, with Harbor, a stunning and chilling masterpiece, Lindqvist firmly cements his place as the heir apparent to Stephen King. One ordinary winter afternoon on a snowy island, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse in the middle of the frozen channel. While they are exploring the lighthouse, Maja disappears - either into thin air or under thin ice -- leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, Anders, a broken man, moves back to his family's abandoned home on the island. He soon realizes that Maja's disappearance is only one of many strange occurrences, and that his fellow islanders, including his own grandmother, know a lot more than they're telling. As he digs deeper, Anders begins to unearth a dark and deadly secret at the heart of this small, seemingly placid town. As he did with Let the Right One In and Handling the Undead, John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a blockbuster cocktail of high-tension suspense in a narrative that barely pauses for breath.

"John Ajvide Lindqvist is a master philosopher of the horror genre." --Washington Post Book World Zombies and human clash in this horror novel by the author of the international bestseller Let the Right One In, for which he wrote the screenplay for the the Swedish smash hit film of the same name, which some critics (see below) have called the best vampire film ever made. John Ajvide Lindqvist has reinvented the vampire genre. Now he's taken on zombies, and readers everywhere will find themselves utterly consumed by Handling the Undead. Something peculiar is happening. While the city is enduring a heat wave, people are finding that their electric appliances won't stay switched off. And everyone has a blinding headache. Then the terrible news breaks - in the city morgue, the newly dead are waking. David always knew his wife was far too good for him. But he never know how lost he'd be without her until the night she died. Now she's gone and he's alone. But when he goes to identify her body, she opens her eye... Across the city, grieving families find themselves able to see their loved ones one last time. But are these creatures really them? How long can this last? And what deadly price will they have to pay for the chance to see their spouses and children just one more time?

Handling the Undead

"Establishes Lindqvist as Sweden's Stephen King." --The Washington Post on Harbor John Ajvide Lindqvist has been crowned the heir apparent to Stephen King by numerous sources, and he is heralded around the globe as one of the most spectacularly talented horror writers working today. His first novel, Let the Right One In, is a cult classic that has been made into iconic films in both Sweden and in the United States. His second novel, Handling the Undead, is beloved by horror fans everywhere. His third novel, Harbor, is a masterpiece that draws countless comparisons to Stephen King. Now, with Little Star, his most profoundly unsettling book yet, Lindqvist treads previously unmarked territory. A man finds a baby in the woods, left for dead. He brings the baby home, and he and his wife raise the girl in their basement. When a shocking and catastrophic incident occurs, the couple's son Jerry whisks the girl away to Stockholm to start a new life. There, he enters her in a nationwide singing competition. Another young girl who's never fit in sees the performance on TV, and a spark is struck that will ignite the most terrifying duo in modern fiction. Little Star is an unforgettable portrait of adolescence, a modern-day Carrie for the age of internet bullies, offensive reality television, and overnight You Tube sensations. Chilling, unnerving, and petrifying, Little Star is the most disturbing book to date by Scandinavian superstar John Ajvide Lindqvist.

Little Star

On a winter trip home to the island of Domarö, Anders and Cecilia take their six-year-old daughter Maja across the ice to visit the lighthouse at Gåvasten. And Maja disappears. Leaving not even a footprint in the snow. Two years later, alone and more or less permanently drunk, Anders returns to Domarö to confront his despair. He slowly realises that Maja's disappearance is not the first inexplicable tragedy to strike the islanders. Nor is everyone telling him all they know; even his own grandmother, it seems, is keeping secrets. And what is it about the sea? There's something very bad happening on Domarö. Something that involves the sea itself. John Ajvide Lindqvist serves up a masterful cocktail of suspense laced with bizarre humour and a narrative that barely pauses for breath. Harbour is also a heartbreaking study of loss and guilt: a novel whose epic climax pits the infinite force of nature against the implacable love of a father for his child.

Harbour

In September 1985, nineteen-year-old John Lindqvist moved into a dilapidated old building in Stockholm, planning to make his living as a magician. Something strange was going on in the locked shower room in the building’s basement—and the price of entry was just a little blood. I Always Find You is a horror story—as bizarre and macabre as any of Lindqvist’s earlier novels—but it’s also a melancholy meditation on being young and lonely, on making friends and growing up. It’s about magic, and the intensity of human connection—and the evil we carry inside. John Ajvide Lindqvist lives in Sweden, and has worked as a magician and stand-up comedian. His first novel, the international bestseller Let the Right One In, was published in more than thirty countries. Marlaine Delargy is based in the UK. She has translated novels by Swedish writers including Kristina Ohlsson, Viveca Sten and Johan Theorin—with whom she won the CWA International Dagger 2010 for The Darkest Room. ‘The strength of the novel lies in the author’s calm, unhurried reporting of increasingly supernatural events, and his decision to have a fictional version of himself as narrator, which lends an unsettling autobiographical element and grounds the story in reality.’ Guardian ‘Lindqvist manages a near-perfect blend of moving and macabre. ’ BookMooch ‘As imaginative and brilliant as any of Stephen King’s famous stories...Eerie and compelling.’ Canberra Weekly on I Am Behind You ‘Mixes the ordinary with the macabre to provide a story that will leave you pondering...Perfectly chilling.’ Aurealis ‘A genuine skin-crawler of a book.’ Otago Daily Times on I Am Behind You. ‘[A] tale of a strange evil force.’ Age ‘A bizarre read, seriously inventive and wildly different.’ Weekend West

Stephen King

Edgar Allan Poe

I den här asken samlas fyra skräcknoveller: En mörk fantasyhistoria där två ungdomar försvinner spårlöst under lucianatten. Två gamla vänners dolda hemlighet som mitt i den glittrande skärgårdsidyllen plötsligt gör sig påmind och hotar att ta livet av dem båda. En brutal berättelse om ett mord och människans förhållande till sin egen skuld. Och så den krypande obehagliga Stephen King-novellen där vi dras in en bisarr värld där allt kan hända. Eller har det kanske redan hänt?

Fyra Skräcknoveller

In his new novel, John Ajvide Lindqvist does for zombies what his previous novel, Let the Right One In, did for vampires. Across Stockholm the power grid has gone crazy. In the morgue and in cemeteries, the recently deceased are waking up. One grandfather is alight with hope that his grandson will be returned, but one husband is aghast at what his adored wife has become. A horror novel that transcends its genre by showing what the return of the dead might really mean to those who loved them.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

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