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Rabbit Warren is a naturalized Austrian and author of fourteen published books that include dark fiction, children´s fantasies and a twin autobiography of his life and travels in the Alps. “Let Sleeping Nazis Lie” was inspired by the many tales of East Germans that he met and befriended during and since the Fall of the Berlin Wall. Steeped in history, this psycho-drama and spy-thriller is set against the 1989 Revolution of East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, as well as the end of World War Two and the Soviet take-over. 60-year old pacifist Klaus Bloederwitz remembers his ...

This part-travelogue and part-scrapbook of curiosities and memories is the sequel to macabre story-teller and children´s fantasy author Rabbit Warren´s autobiographic “My Dreams and Travels”. Beginning with his amusingly botched attempt to become a travel courier, Rabbit then describes how he finally realized his “Alpine Dream” by training as both a chef and a pastry chef in the Bavarian Alps, as well as then becoming a hotel children´s entertainer and magic clown in the Austrian Tyrol. As well as describing the many colorful places that he worked – including a partying ski-...

Here´s another rich and assorted feast of colorful tales from macabre and fantasy author Rabbit Warren, each with its own unexpected and shocking ending. They include such bizarre delights as a classic Victorian murder story (“The Man with the Severed Head”), a psycho thriller about an ex-journalist who fears for her daughter´s life (“The Gingerbread Witches”), a modern tale of a ghastly experiment that goes horribly wrong (“Frankenstein´s Nanny”) and the sinister romance of the daughter of a murderer (“Madame Guillotine”), as well as tales of cold-blooded revenge, a case...

This light-hearted autobiography of macabre story-teller and children´s fantasy author Rabbit Warren is also part-travelogue and part-scrapbook of curiosities, as well as being the prequel to “My Dreams in the Alps”. Beginning with his earliest childhood memories of Apartheid South Africa before growing up in the suburbs of London, Rabbit describes how he gradually came to dream of becoming a writer, working with children and living in the Alps. After missing his final exams because of a major bicycle accident, he then recounts his travels and adventures in the Alps whilst finding work...

Have you ever visited an Austrian ski resort and wondered how the village would have been like during the days of the Nazis? Well, here is a novel that does just that . . . Based on carefully researched facts of his adopted country during the Fatherland Front and Anschluss eras of the 1930s, dark fiction author Rabbit Warren has skillfully weaved a gripping story about a time that most Austrians would sooner forget. Erich Schilling is only ten years old when he sees his first Nazi swastika emblazoned on the side of a mountain above his Tyrolean village, Gletschberg am Brenner. His dream is ...

NOTE: This is the same book as “Let Sleeping Nazis Lie” but with its vulgar language removed. It is also a pacifist and anti-Nazi book which specifically targets the horrors of war and the secret police of totalitarian governments. Steeped in history, this fascinating spy-psycho-thriller is set against the 1989 Revolution of East Germany and the Fall of the Berlin Wall. 60-year old pacifist Klaus Bloederwitz remembers his parents with a fond nostalgia, in spite of having been heavily traumatized by their brutal deaths on the eve of his sixteenth birthday during the 1945 Dresden bombings...

Here´s a glorious cornucopia of highly entertaining tales from macabre and fantasy author Rabbit Warren, each with its own chilling and unexpected twist at the end. Ranging from the sinister supernatural to gruesome revenge to tragic human mistakes and macabre sea-adventures, they include a Victorian murder story, a girl´s search for her dead Dad, the discovery of a body in a butchery, a rat catcher´s gory love for his job, a schoolboy´s ghostly treasure hunt, a mafia man´s vendetta, a cyclist who doesn´t know if he is dead or not, a barber with his cut-throat knife, a hitchhiker´s ...

Damon´s grandmother is an extraordinary half-Austrian, half-German lady who lives her life just the way that she wants to. One day she tells her grandson Damon and his friends how she won a Gold Medal for skiing, way back in the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen. It was there that she not only met the love of her life but also the Greatest Charming Stinker Ever. Damon´s step-father is also a Charming Stinker and, when he has her put in an Old People´s Home, she plans to escape using the same magic that she used when she escaped from Nazi Germany in 1938. This is a ...

Monty´s has no idea that his Christmas adventures are only beginning when he shrinks to the size of a mouse and meets a real mouse called Mortimer. They not only discover that his toys have come alive but that the whole of his Magic Kingdom is in danger. Not only has the Box of Hocus Pocus been opened but they are being visited by the Four, Black Cowboys of Disaster – and perhaps even a pixie. A cozy, magical story for all the year round. Suitable for 7-120 year olds.

A rich, comic horror fantasy for both girls and boys. Ka-moon, the new school boy, looks just like a vampire. When George and his friends follow him into Miss Cleowiggle´s secret cupboard and discover an ancient Egyptian tomb, they also find the old caretaker being experimented on like Frankenstein. Trying to escape from being turned into a zombie, George foolishly drinks a magic potion which curses him for the rest of his life but also makes him able to challenge the wicked Ka-moon. Suitable from 9 years to 12,000 year olds.

Beginning in First World War London, Jonny and Jenny are whisked away by Mr. Twinkle in his “Tinmobile” time-machine. Saving them from being guzzled up by the evil Gremlin during the night-time zeppelin raids, he takes them to a magical version of London called Nogoland. There they meet King Gobstopper and his witch-queen Sherbet, who they are sure is really their Nanny. After helping to open the City Gates for General Candy and his candy-stick army they are invited into the general´s sweet factory but soon guess that he is working for the Gremlin. Their fears are soon realized when ...

This rare treat for kids and grown-ups alike begins on a mid-winter´s night in the Alps when Gogonuts the Gnome struggles to bring a chest of the Great Magic Ingredient to his friend, Frankie the Baker. Hoping to make themselves rich and famous, they soon plan to travel to the tropical island in the Great Ocean where Gogonuts discovered the ingredient. This magical island is made entirely of sweets, cakes and puddings. However, their plans are soon quashed when the evil King Large Portion arrives and takes control of the trip. This is an hilarious story with lots more lovable characters, ...

Buttercup the gnome can´t believe her luck when she meets another gnome, Tommy the Toymaker, in the smog-ridden, factory city of Smokehatten in Fineland. That´s because the goblins from Brushia have long run over the country and forced most of the gnomes to work long hours in their filthy factories. After marrying, they finally get their chance to escape Fineland for good when they secretly meet the strange Elf-King of Toparia - but only if they and Tommy´s uncle build a submarine to steal the River Fine Gold and finish building his fairytale castle in Tophatten. This charmingly-told ...

Watch out! The Nightmare Bugs are coming to suck the nightmares out of your brains to make Nightmare Gunge and Nightmare Syrup with. In this both very exciting and highly informative sci-fi story Virgo and her astrophysicist great-grandfather join Father Time on his mission to save the Earth from the wicked Big Bloke and his Nightmare Aliens. Not only are they helped by the President of the U.S.A. but also by the world´s most famous wizard (guess who he might be). Not only for all sci-fi fans and space freaks but also for all those who love a good night´s adventure with a taste of ...

Unhappy with his lot, young Boz jumps at the chance to travel to 1970 in the future. At first, everyone at school thinks he is a wierdo but he soon gets to show his genius and makes friends. Inspired by the fantastic characters of Charles Dickens, this is a delightful story with a really scary ending. A richly illustrated book that is suitable for 10-120 year olds.