The Troll on the Third Floor and Two Other Tales

By Kristian Eskild Jensen Martin Glaz Serup

Three frightening, thrilling and magical tales to become the new Danish classics.

A man-eater prowls freely in the town each night, kidnapping people, so a young girl must go after the monster in its cavern to save her father. But what looks like a giant mole turns out to be a cursed man in disguise.
A flying suitcase that can take you everywhere in the world, who wouldn’t wish to have something like that? The son of a merchant inherits of both the shop and the suitcase and promises to his father to do what his father never did: fly far away on the suitcase. But the son is more interested in having a shop than travelling around the world?

There is a troll living on the third floor. Two brothers decide to lure the troll to his death and kill him as courage trial, leaving their younger brother behind. But the troll is not as easy to lure as one might believe, even with pies and cakes, and their younger brother proves to be braver and cleverer than they assumed.

The Man-Eater, The Suitcase and The Troll on the Third Floor are three grim yet mesmerizingly scary stories, written in the tradition of the best Danish fairy tales by Martin Glaz Serup, and illustrated with wonderfully frightening and beautiful pictures by Kristian Eskild Jensen.

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Kristian Eskild Jensen (b. 1972) is a renowed Danish illustrator who graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in Maidstone, UK, in 1999. Since 2000, he has worked with illustrations, animations and graphic design.Jensen has illustrated numerous Danish comic series and picture books, and won the Danish Ministry of Culture’s Illustrator Prize in 2017 for the book Og de onde lo. In 2022, the illustrator with author Martin Glaz Serup brought out the story collection Trolden på tredje og to andre eventyr, or The Troll on the Third Floor and Two Other Tales, which impressively resembles old Danish classics with its mesmerizing pictures.

Martin Glaz Serup (1978) is an awarded Danish author who lives in Copenhagen.He has published several children’s books, poetry collections, chapbooks-essays and prose work in seven countries.Serup is a teacher of literary studies at the University of Copenhagen and offers writing courses. The author also works as a literary critic for different publications.