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Just as a major environmental summit is about to start in Hamburg, a massive storm hits the city. When the flood waters recede, a headless torso is found washed up. Initially, Jan Fabel fears it may be another victim of a serial rapist and murderer who stalks his victims, then dumps their bodies in waterways around the city. But the truth of the situation is far more complex. Fabel’s investigations lead him to a secretive environmental Doomsday cult called “Pharos”, the brainchild of a reclusive, crippled billionaire.

Carbine International Pictures is making The Devil's Playground, 'the greatest horror movie of all time', about a mediaeval community that saves itself from the Black Death by turning to the demon and Lord of Hell, Beelzebub, for protection. Based on a mysterious screenplay, in turn based on a novel written by a defrocked priest, The Devil's Playground is rumored to be the subject of a deadly curse.

Lennox liked Quiet Tommy Quaid. Perhaps it's odd for a private detective to like - even admire - a career thief, but Quiet Tommy Quaid was the sort of man everyone liked. Amiable, easygoing, well dressed, with no vices to speak of - well, aside from his excessive drinking and womanising, but then, in 1950s Glasgow those were practically virtues. And besides, throughout his many exploits outside the law, Quiet Tommy never once used violence.

It’s November 1956. The world is in turmoil, the Suez Crisis and the Hungarian Uprising boiling away in the background. Lennox, though, has more immediate concerns, like getting his personal life and his business back on track. In a bid to stay out of trouble, he’s looking for more legitimate cases. Anything’s better than working for the Three Kings, the crime bosses who run Glasgow’s underworld. When a woman comes into his office and hires him

From international best-selling author Craig Russell comes a modern Gothic masterpiece. Edward Hyde has a strange gift - or a curse - he keeps secret from all but his physician. He experiences two realities, one real, the other a dreamworld state brought on by a neurological condition. When murders in Victorian Edinburgh echo the ancient Celtic threefold death ritual, Captain Edward Hyde hunts for those responsible. In the process he becomes entangled in a web of Celticist occultism and dark scheming by powerful figures.

1935. As Europe prepares itself for a calamitous war, six homicidal lunatics - the so-called 'Devil's Six' - are confined in a remote castle asylum in rural Czechoslovakia. Each patient has their own dark story to tell, and Dr Viktor Kosárek, a young psychiatrist using revolutionary techniques, is tasked with unlocking their murderous secrets. At the same time, a terrifying killer known as 'Leather Apron' is butchering victims across Prague. Successfully eluding capture, it would seem his depraved crimes are committed by the devil himself.

Jan Fabel is a troubled man. His relationships with the women in his life are becoming increasingly complicated. If that weren’t bad enough, after a gap of ten years, a female serial killer – the Angel of St Pauli – again makes the headlines when an English pop star is found in Hamburg’s red-light district, dying of savage knife wounds.

A Cologne detective asks Jan Fabel for his help in tracking down the Carnival Cannibal, a terrifying serial killer who kills at the start of the world-famous annual Carnival. Unknown to anyone, Fabel's deputy, Maria Klee, also heads for Cologne to hunt down a different, even more dangerous killer - one with whom she has a score to settle. Taras Buslenko, a Ukrainian special-forces commander, prepares his undercover unit for a "black" operation into Cologne.

As Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, interprets this twisted imagery at a crime scene, it becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected by the Brothers Grimm. The hunt is on for a serial killer who is exploring the darkest, most fundamental fears hidden in ancient fairy tales.

Jan Fabel is a haunted man. Head of the Polizei Hamburg's Murder Commission, Fabel has dealt with the dead for nearly two decades, but when a routine enquiry becomes a life-threatening - and life-changing - experience, he finds himself on much closer terms with death than ever before. Two years later Fabel's first case at the Murder Commission comes back to haunt him: Monika Krone's body is found at last, 15 years after she went missing.

Jan Fabel, of the Hamburg murder squad, struggles to interpret the twisted imagery of a dark and brutal mind. Four days later, a man and a woman are found deep in woodland, their throats slashed deep and wide, the names "Hansel" and "Gretel", in the same, tiny, obsessively neat writing, rolled tight and pressed into their hands. It becomes clear that each new crime is a grisly reference to folk stories collected almost two hundred years ago by the Brothers Grimm.

For 50 years, Freeman Tilden's Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. This expanded and revised anniversary edition includes not only Tilden's classic work but also five additional essays by Tilden on the art and craft of interpretation, a new foreword by former National Park Service director Russell Dickenson, and an introduction by R. Bruce Craig that puts Tilden's writings into perspective for present and future generations.

For 21 years, Dan Russell trained for four to six hours a day, six days a week in pursuit of winning an Olympic Gold medal in the sport of wrestling. He pushed his body to the limits, enduring brutal weight loss regimens, shattering injuries, personal tragedy, and constant inner battles with the voices from his past telling him that he wasn't good enough.

Auf den Straßen tanzt das Volk, und das Einzige, was zählt, ist der Spaß an der Freud. Doch Oberkommissar Benni Scholz hat andere Sorgen, als den Karnevalswagen der Kölner Polizei herzurichten. Er hat zwei ungeklärte Morde in seinen Akten, begangen im letzten und im vorletzten Jahr. Beide Opfer waren nach ihrem Tod verstümmelt worden, ein Pfund Fleisch wurde ihnen aus dem Körper geschnitten. Und auch der Tag war der gleiche: Weiberfastnacht. Scholz befürchtet, dass der Mörder in diesem Jahr wieder zuschlagen wird.

Im Hamburger Rotlichtviertel wird ein britischer Popstar tot aufgefunden, von Messerstichen zerfetzt. Hat der Engel von St. Pauli wieder zugeschlagen, ein Serienkiller, der vor zehn Jahren seine blutige Spur durch Hamburg zog - und der nie gefasst wurde? Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel hat seine Zweifel. Denn es sieht so aus, als ob dieser Fall mit anderen Morden im In-und Ausland in Zusammenhang steht. Dem Tod eines serbischen Gangsters. Der Ermordung eines Journalisten in Norwegen. Und mit einer Legende aus der Zeit des Kalten Krieges.

Edward Hyde, Superintendent der Polizei von Edinburgh, hat ein Geheimnis: Er leidet an Epilepsie und weiß oft nicht, wie er in eine bestimmte Situation geraten ist. Als er vor einem Toten steht, der nach einem keltischen Ritual ermordet worden ist, beschließt er, sich seinem einzigen Freund, dem Arzt Dr. Samuel Porteous, zu offenbaren. Doch dann wird auch Porteous ermordet – und Hyde findet heraus, dass sein Freund nur zwei Patienten heimlich sah: ihn und jemanden, den er "das Biest" nannte. Hyde ahnt, er muss den Mörder finden, um sich selbst zu erlösen.

In Hamburg versetzt ein Serienmörder die Bewohner der Hansestadt in Angst und Schrecken. Der Täter folgt einem Ritus, der aus der Zeit der Wikinger stammt und unter der Bezeichnung "Blutadler" bekannt ist. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel wird mit der Aufklärung der brutalen Verbrechen betraut. Bei seinen Recherchen stößt er auf einen geheimnisvollen Kult, dessen Mitglieder vor keinem Opfer zurückschrecken.

Jan Fabel, Chef der Mordkommission in Hamburg, hat sich verändert. Vor zwei Jahren ist er beinahe gestorben, als ein Mann ihn anschoss. Er hatte eine Nahtod-Erfahrung, die ihn noch mehr zu einem intuitiv arbeitenden Polizisten werden lässt. Als bei Bauarbeiten eine Leiche gefunden wird, ahnt er sofort, dass es sich um die sterblichen Überreste von Monika Krone handelt, die vor fünfzehn Jahren spurlos verschwand. Wenig später beginnt eine unheimliche Mordserie.

A creepy comedy podcast, telling stories of true crime, ghosts, aliens and more. Each week our three hosts chat about the macabre, creepy and terrifying.

Mysteriöse Verbrechen beunruhigen die Hamburger Bevölkerung, und nur eines scheint die Opfer miteinander zu verbinden: Bei allen finden sich Hinweise darauf, dass der Täter sich gezielt an den Märchen der Gebrüder Grimm orientiert. Hauptkommissar Jan Fabel versucht verzweifelt, hinter das Motiv des Täters zu kommen. Zeitgleich sorgt ein Buch für Furore, in dem der Autor die Behauptung aufstellt, einer der Gebrüder Grimm sei ein Serienmörder gewesen, der nach Motiven der von ihm und seinem Bruder gesammelten Märchen Gewaltverbrechen begangen habe.