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Welcome to another kind of terror as Peter Straub leads us into the outer reaches of the psyche. Here the master of the macabre is at his absolute best in seven exquisite tales of living, dying, and the terror that lies in between.

The construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time. For if the perfect clock starts ticking, Time, as we know it, will stop. And then the trouble will really begin. Subtle, sly, thought-provoking, and hilarious, Thief of Time is Terry Pratchett at his best. "This delightful production keeps the listener spellbound," says AudioFile.

Twas the night (okay, more like the week) before Christmas, and all through Pine Cove, California, people are busy buying, wrapping, packing, and generally getting into the holiday spirit.

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch will be damned if he lets anyone disturb his city's always tentative peace, and that includes a rabble-rousing dwarf from the sticks who's been stirring up trouble on the eve of the anniversary of one of Discworld's most infamous historical events.

While on holiday in 1925, four-year-old Michael Tolkien lost his beloved toy dog on the beach at Filey in Yorkshire. To console him, his father, J.R.R. Tolkien, improvised a story about Rover, a real dog who is magically transformed into a toy and is forced to seek out the wizard who wronged him in order to be returned to normal. This charming tale, peopled by a sand-sorcerer and a terrible dragon, by the king of the sea and the Man-in-the-Moon, went through several drafts over the years.

Terry Pratchetts Scheibenwelt als Hörspiel - Mumm, Karotte, Colon, Nobby, Sybil Käsedick, der Patrizier & Co. werden lebendig! Ein herbei beschworener Drache terrorisiert Ankh-Morpork und stürzt die Stadt mehr und mehr ins Chaos. Nur die heruntergekommene Nachtwache um den versoffenen Hauptmann Mumm nimmt zusammen mit der Drachen-Expertin Sybil Käsedick den Kampf gegen das Ungetüm auf und legt dem geheimnisvollen Obersten Größten Meister das Handwerk...

B.Ö.S.E., ein in die Jahre gekommener Konzern für Angst- Panik- und Hysterieprodukte, versucht Schritt zu halten mit den Entwicklungen auf dem Markt. Längst haben die Erzeugnisse aus der "neutralen Zone" das Niveau der eigenen Waren erreicht und sogar übertroffen. Der Vorstand scheint anhand dieses Umstandes eher überfordert, und auch sein durchaus schrecklicher Vorsitzender "STAN" wirkt angesichts der Produkte, die mittlerweile in der Zwischenwelt der Menschen hergestellt werden etwas "oldschool"...

Die umfassende Ausbildung zum Assassinen an der Meuchler-Gilde hat Teppic nicht auf das vorbereitet, wozu ihn das Schicksal ausersehen hat. Plötzlich und unerwartet muss er als Pharao die Thronfolge im Wüstenreich Djelibebi antreten. Doch damit beginnen die Probleme für Teppic erst. Katastrophal wird es, als Teppic genötigt wird, für seinen verstorbenen Vater die grösste je da gewesene Pyramide zu bauen...

Lords und Ladies - Terry Pratchetts Scheibenwelt als Hörspiel. Mitsommernacht. Alles gerät durcheinander. Kornkreise fallen vom Himmel, die Bienen werden nervös. Sogar Zwerge und Trolle sind besorgt. Im kleinen Scheibenwelt-Königreich Lancre pfuschen ein paar selbsternannte Nachwuchs-Hexen an der Kausalität herum, während die drei gestandenen Hexen von Lancre ihre eigenen Probleme haben...

Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all. But now he's back in his own rough, tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck. Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. But there's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.

Moist von Lipwig was a con artist and a fraud and a man faced with a life choice: be hanged, or put Ankh-Morpork's ailing postal service back on its feet. It was a tough decision. But he's got to see that the mail gets though, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer. Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the trolls. It was far away. It was a long time ago. But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office. With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin, and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

Polly Perks had to become a boy in a hurry. Cutting off her hair and wearing trousers was easy. Learning to fart and belch in public and walk like an ape took more time. And now she's enlisted in the army, and searching for her lost brother. But there's a war on. There's always a war on. And Polly and her fellow recruits are suddenly in the thick of it, without any training, and the enemy is hunting them.

There's nothing like the issue of evolution to get under the skin of academics. Especially when those same academics are by chance or bad judgement deposited at a critical evolutionary turning point when one wrong move could have catastrophic results for the future. Unfortunately, in the hands of such an inept and cussed group of individuals, the sensitive issue of causality is, sadly, only likely to receive the same scant respect that they show to one another.

William de Worde is the accidental editor of the Discworld's first newspaper. Now he must cope with the traditional perils of a journalist's life: people who want him dead, a recovering vampire with a suicidal fascination for flash photography, some more people who want him dead in a different way and, worst of all, the man who keeps begging him to publish pictures of his humorously shaped potatoes. William just wants to get at the truth.

Mightily Oats has not picked a good time to be priest. He thought he'd come to the mountain kingdom of Lancre for a simple little religious ceremony. Now he's caught up in a war between vampires and witches, and he's not sure there is a right side.

Time is a resource. Everyone knows it has to be managed. And on Discworld, that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater; how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time. But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice, Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.

Fate is a word that springs to the lips when to call something coincidence seems mealy mouthed. Destiny is another such. But the problem with destiny is, of course, that she is not always careful where she points her finger. One minute you might be minding your own business on a normal, if not spectacular, career path; the next you might be in the frame for the big job. Like saving the world.

Um einer ermüdenden Gedenkveranstaltung der Stadtwache zu entgehen, greift Sir Samuel Vimes mitunter zu allen nur denkbaren Mitteln. Wenn es sein muss, lässt er sich sogar dazu herab, eigenhändig einem Verbrecher nachzujagen - vor allem, wenn es sich um einen ausgemachten Fiesling handelt, der Offizieren der Wache nach dem Leben trachtet...

Die Scheibenwelt dreht sich mit der Geschwindigkeit einer brillanten Comedy-CD: Dirk Bach ist wieder da, mit dem nächsten unglaublichen Abenteuer in der Stadt Ankh-Morpork, auf dem Planeten, der so flach ist wie eine Pizza und auf den Rücken von 4 Elefanten ruht.