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The Cursed Idol
A sharp, haunting coming-of-age novel about identity, temptation, and the price of wanting too much. Daniel doesn’t fit in – not at home, not at school, not even in his own skin. Then, in an abandoned villa, he finds a stone idol with human hair and a stitched mouth. A note warns: it gives with one hand, but takes with…
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Goodwill
One stormy night, a boy returns from the forest. But he is not alone. In November 1851, a caravan of settlers reached the desolate shores of what would become Seattle. They were exhausted, wet and full of hope. Among them were Jeanette and Henry Goodwill, who a few days after their arrival welcomed the birth of their first child: Ambrosius. But…
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The Evil Twenty
What would the stories we love be without their villains? They give weight to the shadows of the human soul. They let us feel contrast, complexity, danger—and sometimes, even recognition. In The Evil Twenty, Manlio Castagna invites readers on a journey into the minds of twenty of the greatest villains of all time, in twenty powerful short stories that explore…
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The Night of the Malombre
March 2, 1944. A freight train packed with desperate passengers departs Naples in the dead of night, heading for the Lucanian countryside, where food might still be found. On board are hundreds of civilians: smugglers, mothers, soldiers, children, and three teens who don’t know each other — yet. Brando, a boy forced to grow up too soon, climbs aboard to find…
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Try Not To Sleep
Young and bold, Baladine is the brilliant mind behind De Profundis, a podcast that each week captivates a wide audience of true crime and horror enthusiasts, recounting real and terrifying stories “straight from the heart of darkness”. But now she’s stuck in a creative block that threatens to drag her back into the abyss she fought so hard to escape.…
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The Beasts
Three deadbeat robbers with animal nicknames, Lynx, Buzzard and Toad, masked with rough cotton sacks slung over their heads, take shelter in the former Boeri sanitorium in Tresigallo. A coincidence leads them to cross paths with a class of Ferrara high school students on a trip to the old hospital and so they decide to take them hostage. The Boeri,…
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No One Is Coming To Get You
During a school trip to the ruins of Herculaneum, Calista—Cali—finds a scrap of paper hidden in a crack in the wall. The message is written in clumsy handwriting: a desperate cry for help, a whisper of loneliness. She replies, slipping a note back into the wall. And just like that, the dialogue begins. The person — or thing — on the…
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