John Ajvide Lindqvist

In the aftermath of the bizarre murder of a local bully, 12-year-old Oskar theorizes that the killing was an act of revenge and wonders about the nighttime activities of a new next-door neighbor, in a first novel that is the basis for the forthcoming movie. Reprint. Movie tie-in.

Let Me In

Something very peculiar is happening in Stockholm. There's a heatwave on and people cannot turn their lights out or switch their appliances off. Then the terrible news breaks. In the city morgue, the dead are waking up... What do they want? What everybody wants: to come home. Handling the Undead is a story about our greatest fear and about a love that defies death. Following his success with Let the Right One In, this novel too has been a bestseller in his native Sweden

Handling the Undead

Rescuing and raising an abandoned baby girl in the woods, a man enters the child in a singing competition when she develops an astonishingly beautiful voice, a performance that leads to the girl's encounter with another youngster with whom she triggers a horrifying force. By the author of Let the Right One In. 50,000 first printing.

A Novel

Little Star

Continues the story of Oskar and Eli from the author's "Let the Right One In," and includes "Equinox," in which a woman makes a disturbing discovery while taking care of her vacationing neighbor's house.

Let the Old Dreams Die

Let the Right One In Takes Top Honors at Tribeca Film Festival and is now an Award-winning movie in both the U.S. and Sweden! It is autumn 1981 when inconceivable horror comes to Blackeberg, a suburb in Sweden. The body of a teenager is found, emptied of blood, the murder rumored to be part of a ritual killing. Twelve-year-old Oskar is personally hoping that revenge has come at long last---revenge for the bullying he endures at school, day after day. But the murder is not the most important thing on his mind. A new girl has moved in next door---a girl who has never seen a Rubik's Cube before, but who can solve it at once. There is something wrong with her, though, something odd. And she only comes out at night. . . .Sweeping top honors at film festivals all over the globe, director Tomas Alfredsson's film of Let the Right One In has received the same kind of spectacular raves that have been lavished on the book. American and Swedish readers of vampire fiction will be thrilled! Following the success in Sweden, this movie was remade starring Kodi Smit Mcpheem, Chloe Grace Moretz and Richard Jenkins under the new title Let Me In. The story has continued to reach new viewers in a London Musical and the book remains a vampire favorite among its readers.

Let the Right One In

En klargul, låst container. En morgon står den i Norrtäljes hamn. Ingen vet hur den har kommit dit eller vad den innehåller. När låset slutligen sågas upp är det något som rinner ut. Något mörkt som kommer att förändra Norrtälje och få den vardagliga vänligheten att vittra sönder. Under denna tid får vi även följa Max, Siw, Anna, Johan, Marko och Maria. Alla i trettioårsåldern och med sina egna problem i livet. Men när Norrtälje förändras förs de samman på ett för alla oväntat sätt. Vänligheten är en stor berättelse om vänskap och kärlek i ett Sverige i förändring. Den rör sig över 30 år och med denna roman visar John Ajvide Lindqvist att han inte bara är Sveriges största skräckmästare utan också en av våra största samtidsskildrare. Så bra att det är svårt att sammanfatta på så här få rader. (...) Trots sina mastiga 720 sidor är den lekande lätt (men tung) att ta sig igenom. Den är vänlig, fruktansvärd, rolig, sorglig, äcklig, märklig, spännande och ganska fantastisk. En så kallad läsupplevelse. Helhetsbetyg: 5 (av 5). BTJ, Nils Ahnland Låt mig säga det med en gång: sällan har jag läst en så väl strukturerad berättelse. Den är på över 700 sidor, och håller mig oavbrutet i sitt grepp. Hur kan en berättelse trollbinda så? (...) För drygt ett decennium sedan tilldelades John Ajvide Lindqvist Selma Lagerlöf-priset, och jag tror mig förstå varför här genljuder som det gör. Detta är magnifikt. Här finns en dramatik som inte står Selma Lagerlöf efter. Det är bara att gratulera läsare till något av det bästa Ajvide skrivit. Värnamo Nyheter, Margaretha Levin Blekastad

Vänligheten

den första platsen

Himmelstrand

Four families wake up one morning in their caravans, next to their cars, on an ordinary campsite in southern Sweden. However, during the night something strange has happened. Everything else has disappeared, and the world has been transformed into an endless expanse of grass. The sky is blue, but there is no sign of the sun; there are no trees, no flowers, no birds. And every radio plays nothing but the songs of sixties pop icon Peter Himmelstrand. As the holiday-makers try to come to terms with what has happened, they are forced to confront their deepest fears and secret desires, and in many cases expose the less appealing aspects of their character. Past events that they have tried to bury rise to the surface and take on a terrifying physical form. Can any of them find a way back to reality? I Am Behind You is a compelling, eerie new novel from the internationally bestselling author of Let the Right One In.

I Am Behind You

En vinterdag i Stockholms skærgård forsvinder en 6-årig pige sporløst fra sine forældre på et sted, hvor man ikke burde kunne forsvinde. Det viser sig, at andre er forsvundet i tidens løb, og at der i det hele taget sker mystiske og overnaturlige begivenheder på stedet, og da pigens far beslutter sig for at søge efter sin datter, møder han onde magiske kræfter

Människohamn

Hanteringen av odöda

Theres og Teresa er jævnaldrende teenagere og "anderledes". Deres veje mødes, og det sætter en række begivenheder i gang, som medfører kaos, blod, ondskab og et helt ander liv

Lilla stjärna

Stephen King

Clive Barker

Bev Vincent

Brian James Freeman

Brian Keene

Edgar Allan Poe

Jack Ketchum

Stewart O'Nan

Patricia D. Cacek

Richard T. Chizmar

Kevin Quigley

"Hans-Åke Lilja, founder of Lilja's Library, has compiled a brand new anthology of horror stories to celebrate twenty years of running the #1 Stephen King news site on the web!"--Dust jacket inside flap.

Celebrating 20 Years of Lilja's Library

Shining in the Dark

Verkligheten

tio berättelser

Pappersväggar

Destined to become a modern classic, the short story Itsy Bitsy is guaranteed to make you think twice before you take a picture of someone in a bikini. In this creepy shocker, horror author superstar John Ajvide Lindqvist (LET THE RIGHT ONE IN, HANDLING THE UNDEAD) gives new meaning to punishing the paparazzi.

A Short Story

Itsy Bitsy

I SEPTEMBER 1985 flyttar John Lindqvist in i ett trångt och mörkt gårdshus på Luntmakargatan i Stockholm, vägg i vägg med Brunkebergstunneln. Han vill skapa sig en karriär som restaurangtrollkarl. Några veckor senare blir han tagen för stöld på Åhléns och tillbringar en natt i häkte. Under natten inträffar en rörelse av svårtolkad karaktär och när han återvänder till sitt hus dagen efter har något hänt. Fåglar faller från himlen och hans grannar beter sig underligt. Snart upptäcker han att det finns något i det låsta duschrummet längst inne i tvättstugan, något som kan låta oss färdas till den andra platsen och besanna våra drömmar. Det kostar bara lite lite blod. När John så småningom börjar delta i verksamheten dras han ner i en ström av magi, våld och gemenskap som mynnar ut i mordet på Olof Palme. Rörelsen den andra platsen är en prequel till John Ajvide Lindqvists förra roman Himmelstrand. Det är en berättelse om vår strävan efter sanning och samhörighet och priset vi är villiga att betala, om Stockholm i mitten av 80-talet, trolleri och socialdemokrati. Den är den andra delen i trilogin »Platserna« som kommer att avslutas med X den sista platsen.

Den andra platsen

Rörelsen

• A twisted and surreal new thriller from the bestselling author of Let the Right One In • Something strange is happening in the laundry room of John's apartment building: a portal has opened to a new world in which visitors can be more profoundly and satisfyingly themselves. For John, a teenage loner, this is a chance to explore his darkest and most violent impulses—and to be part of something bigger than himself. But such freedom has a price, and soon John and his neighbours will need to pay their dues. • Part Lynchian dreamscape and part Stephen King psychological horror, I Always Find You is an unnerving and imaginative page-turner that explores the banality of evil and our need for human connection • For the first time the mysterious Lindqvist has written himself into the narrative, with I Always Find You offering insight into the mind and motivations of this enigmatic writer • With his vivid prose style and eccentric passion for the macabre, Linqvist remains one of the most fascinating European novelists working today

I Always Find You

Tjärven

They only stopped watching her for a matter of minutes. On a clear day, Anders took his wife and their feisty six-year-old, Maja, for a walk from his home on the island across the frozen sea to the lighthouse. There was no one for miles around, so they stayed to admire the view while Maja struck out alone. There were no holes in the ice, no place for her to fall. She simply disappeard into thin air. Two years later, a wrecked Anders begins to investigate. Out on the island, he starts to feel he's not alone. Maja is out there... and she's trying to communicate with him.

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