| International Standard Book Number |
9781954321731 (hbk.)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1954321732 (hbk.)
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781954321748 (pbk.)
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| International Standard Book Number |
1954321740 (pbk.)
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| Personal Name |
Musolino, Luigi. author, translator.
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| Title Statement |
A different darkness : and other abominations / by Luigi Musolino ; edited and translated from the Italian by James D. Jenkins ; introduction by Brian Evenson.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Richmond, Virginia : Valancourt Books, 2022.
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| Physical Description |
314 pages ; 21 cm.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Lactic acid -- Les abominations des altitudes -- Uironda -- The carnival of the stag man -- Queen of the sewers -- The strait -- Black hills of torment -- The last box -- Like dogs -- Pupils -- A different darkness.
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| Summary, Etc. |
The highly original and truly terrifying folk horror of Italy’s Luigi Musolino was introduced to an international audience in the acclaimed The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, and now at last an entire volume of the author’s best work – eight stories and three novellas – is available in English for the first time. In ‘Lactic Acid’, a jogger takes an unfamiliar shortcut and quickly finds himself trapped in a nightmare from which there may be no escape. In ‘Uironda’, a strange urban legend overheard at a rest stop becomes a horrifying reality for one truck driver. In ‘The Carnival of the Stag Man’, a reporter sent to cover a village carnival will learn the terrible truth behind its origins when he encounters an ancient divinity in the woods. And in the title novella, after a little girl vanishes in a supermarket, her parents find a strange solace when they discover a bottomless pit in their basement from which her laughter seems to echo – but the abyss’s shimmering darkness is not what it seems . . .
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| Language note |
Translated from the Italian.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Paranoia Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Supernatural Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Short stories.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Piedmont (Italy) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Horror fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Short stories.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Jenkins, James D., 1980- editor, translator.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Evenson, Brian, 1966- writer of introduction.
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