The Limehouse Golem 2016
En række mord har rystet lokalsamfundet, og folk tror efterhånden, at det kun kan skyldes et legendarisk væsen fra de mørke tider: Golem.
En række mord har rystet lokalsamfundet, og folk tror efterhånden, at det kun kan skyldes et legendarisk væsen fra de mørke tider: Golem.
I middelalderens Europa blev jøderne udsat for forfølgelse og boede i slumkvarterer i de store byer. I en af Prags ghettoer skaber rabbineren Judah Loew et væsen af ler og giver den liv med en magisk formel. Der Golem blev skabt for at beskytte det jødiske folk. Golem er en af de tidlige eksempler på tysk ekspressionisme og har haft stor betydning for gysergenren i over 100 år.
Fearless, free-spirited Hilda finds new friends, adventure and magical creatures when she leaves her enchanted forest home and journeys to the city.
The world is ruled by spirits, goblins, and all manner of strange creatures. Human beings are persecuted, to the very point of extinction. One day, a golem and a lone human girl meet. This is a record of the pair, one a member of a ruined race, the other a watchman of the forest. It tells of their travels together and of the bond between father and daughter.
Moist von Lipwig is a con-man with a particular talent-- he is utterly unremarkable. When his execution is stayed in Terry Pratchett's remarkable Discworld, he must work off his debt to society as the land's head Postman. Things are not always as they seem, and soon Lipwig is delivering mail for his very life!