La notte eterna del coniglio
10 best books like La notte eterna del coniglio (Giacomo Gardumi): Nightmares and Dreamscapes, The Colorado Kid, The Child Of Pleasure, The Masque of the Red Death, More Tales to Chill Your Bones, Domain, Asylum, City of Glass, More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, I fiumi della guerra
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0450610098 |
From the Flap:
A solitary finger pokes out of a drain. Novelty teeth turn predatory. Flies settle and die on an old pair of sneakers in New York, and the Nevada desert swallows a Cadillac. Meanwhile the legend of Castle Rock returns . . . and grows on you. What does it all mean? What else could it mean?...
| Author | Stephen King |
| ISBN | 0843955848 |
On an island off the coast of Maine, a man is found dead. There's no identification on the body. Only the dogged work of a pair of local newspapermen and a graduate student in forensics turns up any clues. But that's just the beginning of the mystery. Because the more they learn about the man and the baffling...
| Author | Gabriele D'Annunzio |
| ISBN | 1595690581 |
The Child of Pleasure (written in 1888 and published in 1889) and its protagonist Andrea Sperelli introduced the Italian culture of the late 1800s to Aestheticism and a taste for decadence. Sperelli is a young count, who - like Joris Karl Huysmans' Baron Des Esseintes or Oscar Wilde's Dorian Gray - following...
The Masque of the Red Death
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1594567395 |
The story follows Prince Prospero's attempts to avoid a dangerous plague known as the Red Death by hiding in his abbey. He, along with many other wealthy nobles, has a masquerade ball within seven rooms of his abbey, each decorated with a different color.
In the midst of their revelry, a mysterious...
More Tales to Chill Your Bones
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0439518326 |
Storytellers know — just as they have for hundreds and hundreds of years — that everyone enjoys a good, scary story!
Alvin Schwartz's Scary Stories 3 joins his other popular collections of scary folklore, Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark and More Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark, to give...
| Author | James Herbert |
| ISBN | 0333761278 |
Best in the trilogy of James Herbert's horror genre. I like the beginning where the main protagonist; a motor cycle courier; follows a civil servant who calmly walks among the chaos with purpose. Everybody else is running to and fro during a nuclear attack in London and this smartly dressed man nonchalantly...
| Author | Patrick McGrath |
| ISBN | 0679781382 |
In the summer of 1959 Stella Raphael joins her psychiatrist husband, Max, at his new posting--a maximum-security hospital for the criminally insane. Beautiful and headstrong, Stella soon falls under the spell of Edgar Stark, a brilliant and magnetic sculptor who has been confined to the hospital...
| Author | Paul Auster |
| ISBN | 0140097317 |
Nominated for an Edgar award for best mystery of the year, City of Glass inaugurates an intriguing New York Trilogy of novels that The Washington Post Book World has classified as "post-existentialist private eye... It's as if Kafka has gotten hooked on the gumshoe game and penned his own ever-spiraling...
More Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
| Author | Alvin Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0397320825 |
All those who enjoyed shuddering their way through Alvin Schwartz's first volume of Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark will find a satisfyingly spooky sequel in this new collection of the macabre, the funny, and the fantastic.Is it possible to die -- and not know it? What if a person is buried too soon? What...
| Author | George R.R. Martin |
| ISBN | 8804463325 |
Un autunno di brutali tempeste flagella città distrutte e campi devastati. Nelle terre dei fiumi, nella pericolosa regione delle paludi, ovunque nei Sette Regni dilaga la "Guerra dei Cinque Re". Robb Stark, il giovane re del Nord, pianifica un assalto per riconquistare la terra che è sempre stata...
| Author | Arthur Machen |
| ISBN | 1598188682 |
"Explosion at Munition Works in the Northern District: Many Fatalities." The working man told me about it, and added some dreadful details. Corpses so terribly maimed that coffins had been kept covered; faces mutilated as if by some gnawing animal. . . . I took a tram to the location of the disaster; a...
| Author | Michela Murgia |
| ISBN | 8806197800 |
La Sardegna degli anni Cinquanta è un mondo antico sull’orlo del precipizio. Maria ha sei anni ed è appena diventata «figlia d’anima» dell’anziana Bonaria Urrai, secondo l’uso campidanese che consente alle famiglie numerose di compensare le sterilità altrui attraverso una adozione...
| Author | Stefania Auci |
| ISBN | 0062931679 |
A grand, sweeping international bestseller that captures the many lives of Italy's most notorious family, the Florios, from their humble origins as impoverished shopkeepers to becoming the uncrowned kings of Sicily.
Vincenzo, who lost his father at eight, builds an empire...
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 1594561788 |
This is one of the eeriest and most morbid stories I ever read from Poe. The narrator describes a mesmeric experiment on a dying man named Valdemar. The person acts in a peculiar way when in a mesmeric trance induced in the moment of death. What does the hypnotist do and how long can the mesmeric condition...
Sylvia Plath - Il lamento della regina
| Author | Leonetta Bentivoglio |
I molti tormenti biografici e lo spettacolare suicidio seguito alla fine del suo matrimonio hanno fatto di Sylvia Plath un vessillo del femminismo, relegandola in una gabbia ideologica che ne ha posto in ombra il valore di poeta. Ma è la sua poesia, profondamente oracolare e al di là del tempo, a sancirne...
| Author | Wulf Dorn |
| ISBN | 3453434021 |
Der Fall einer misshandelten Patientin wird für die Psychiaterin Ellen Roth zum Alptraum: Die Frau behauptet, vom Schwarzen Mann verfolgt zu werden. Kurz darauf verschwindet sie spurlos. Bei ihren Nachforschungen wird auch Ellen zum Ziel des Unbekannten. Er zwingt sie zu einer makaberen Schnitzeljagd...
| Author | Ellery Queen |
| ISBN | 1504662350 |
aka Barnaby Ross.
"Ellery Queen" was a pen name created and shared by two cousins, Frederic Dannay (1905-1982) and Manfred B. Lee (1905-1971), as well as the name of their most famous detective. Born in Brooklyn, they spent forty two years writing, editing, and anthologizing under the name,...
| Author | Tiziano Sclavi |
| ISBN | 8877671513 |
Con scanzonata fantasia shocking e calibratissimo senso grottesco Tiziano Sclavi ci riconduce, con questo nuovo romanzo che ha già generato un film, nella vertigine degli incubi e delle paure. Questa volta, il narratore propone un romanzo horror che è una "commedia nera" interpretata da due "amanti...
