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10 best books like The Grotesque (Patrick McGrath): The Golden, The Beckoning Fair One, The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig', Gothic, Alcatraz: Jack Folla un DJ nel braccio della morte, Enigma in luogo di mare, Muscle for the Wing, Spiriti, Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within, The Lords Of The Golden Horn: From Suleiman The Magnificent To Kamal Ataturk

The Golden
AuthorLucius Shepard
Deviating from traditional tales that feature lonely vampires who prowl through human society in search of victims or solace, this account of vampires flourishing in their own "inhuman society" takes place in the year 1860, when their centuries-long breeding experiments have finally produced...
The Beckoning Fair One
AuthorOliver Onions
ISBN0486436470
A chilling novella about a writer's move into a flat and his quick descent into lunacy. I can see why this classic is still being recommended today: it set the table for many such stories to come, and yet doesn't feel dated or overly familiar. Onions is a splendid writer: he gets right into his protagonist's...
The Boats of the 'Glen Carrig'
AuthorWilliam Hope Hodgson
ISBN1557423954
The Glen Carrig, a sailing ship hits an unseen, large, sharp rock just under the surface of this uncharted ocean in 1757, the survivors of the disastrous sinking float for five days, their precious food supply diminishing, (and hope fades) in two lifeboats, on the sixth a tremendous storm strikes the...
Gothic
AuthorFred Botting
ISBN0415092191
Tailored specifically for students new to the daunting field of literary theory, Fred Botting's Gothic is a clear and welcome introduction to the study of this compelling genre. This lucid, easy-to-follow guide:
* Explains the transformations of the genre through history
* Outlines all...
Alcatraz: Jack Folla un DJ nel braccio della morte
AuthorDiego Cugia
ISBN8804506083
Un dj italiano, Jack Folla, rinchiuso ad Alcatraz in attesa di salire sulla sedia elettrica, diffonde nell'etere musica e parole. E dai microfoni di un carcere conduce una battaglia contro l'ipocrisia e la mediocrità, lancia un appello per il cambiamento, soprattutto ai giovani. Ha poco tempo e...
Enigma in luogo di mare
AuthorCarlo Fruttero
ISBN8804370386
Nella Pineta della Gualdana, proprietà privata, si nascondono 153 villette, abitate per lo più durante le vacanze estive, Ma una moderata affluenza si registra anche durante l'inverno e per alcuni residenti stabili la pineta rappresenta un rifugio, un nascondiglio fuori dal mondo, sia pure dotato...
Muscle for the Wing
AuthorDaniel Woodrell
This is an early novel from Daniel Woodrell, the second in his Louisiana Bayou trilogy featuring St. Bruno detective, Rene Shade.

In the parish of St. Bruno the local citizenry exists in an uneasy alliance with a gaggle of small-time mobsters who are headed by a local boss named Auguste Beaurain....
Spiriti
AuthorStefano Benni
ISBN8807816806
Erano anni che non leggevo un Benni. Almeno una decina o forse anche più. Questo autore mi aveva accompagnato durante l'adolescenza e mi ero divertito ed emozionato leggendo i vari Terra!, Baol: una tranquilla notte di regime, Elianto, Il bar sotto il mare (tuttora il mio preferito).

Però...
Blowing Up Russia: Terror from Within
AuthorAlexander Litvinenko
ISBN1594032017
Blowing Up Russia contains the allegations of ex-spy Alexander Litvinenko against his former spymasters in Moscow which led to his being murdered in London in November 2006. In the book he and historian Yuri Felshtinsky detail how since 1999 the Russian secret service has been hatching a plot to return...
The Lords Of The Golden Horn: From Suleiman The Magnificent To Kamal Ataturk
AuthorNoel Barber
ISBN0333138619


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Copyright: 1973
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Una questione privata - I ventitre giorni della città di Alba
AuthorBeppe Fenoglio
ISBN8806117858
«Una questione privata è costruito con la geometrica tensione d'un romanzo di follia amorosa e cavallereschi inseguimenti come l'Orlando furioso, e nello stesso tempo c'è la Resistenza proprio com'era, di dentro e di fuori, vera come mai era stata scritta, serbata per tanti anni limpidamente...
Resurrection Man
AuthorEoin McNamee
ISBN0571221777
'An extraordinary book, illuminating not only the political map of Belfast but also the dark ring-roads of collective memory and the secret blueprints inside our heads.' Daily Telegraph

Victor Kelly is the resurrection man, a violent and ruthless Protestant killer roaming the streets...
The Drive-In: A Double Feature Omnibus
AuthorJoe R. Lansdale
A generation or two ago, Texas was known for its sprawling drive-in cinemas and zany monster flicks playing out over the cool summer air. In his 1988 cult classic, Joe Lansdale taps into this nostalgia, turning a lightsome night out at the theater into a grungy galleria of claustrophobic terror. What...
La cura
AuthorHermann Hesse
Una pausa di due settimane nella vita di un intellettuale che aspira alla saggezza lo spinge – attraverso piccoli fatti in apparenza irrilevanti – a dubitare con buone ragioni di sé: e quell’intellettuale è Hesse stesso, che ironizza stupendamente sulla propria persona. Questo conflitto...
Canone inverso
AuthorPaolo Maurensig
In an isolated Austrian music school in the 1930s, two boys, each struggling with the burden of talent, the curse of obsession, and the forces of history ranged against them, become locked in a complex friendship. One is a Hungarian bastard peasant boy touched by brilliance, the other the sole heir to...
As Rosas de Atacama
AuthorLuis Sepúlveda
ISBN9724123847
Um dia, no campo de concentração de Bergen Belsen, na Alemanha, Luis Sepúlveda encontrou gravada numa pedra uma frase de autor anónimo que dizia: «Eu estive aqui e ninguém contará a minha história.» Essa frase trouxe-lhe à memória toda uma galeria de personagens excecionais que havia...
Musica. Un'interpretazione psicoanalitica di un caso di frigidità
AuthorYukio Mishima
Un giorno d'autunno, alla porta del dottor Shiomi Kazunori, uno psicananlista che da cinque anni ha aperto uno studio a Hibiya, si presenta un'affascinante ragazza di nome Reiko, che lo informa di non riuscire a sentire la musica. Da qui si sviluppa un'intricata vicenda in cui i molteplici tentativi...
L'isola dell'angelo caduto
AuthorCarlo Lucarelli
Gennaio 1925. Mentre il Duce si assume alla Camera la responsabilità del delitto Matteotti, su una sperduta isola italiana, sede di una Colonia penale per delinquenti comuni e prigionieri politici, viene trovato il cadavere di una camicia nera. A indagare su questa morte, e su quelle che seguiranno,...
The Auctioneer
AuthorJoan Samson
ISBN1933618191
Harrowing tensions explode in a series of events that could happen anywhere, to anyone, just as they do to John Moore—whose days of freedom run out, who is stripped of his possessions, his courage, and his hopes, by the ominous presence of an insidious stranger impossible to resist.

Published...
The Fellowship: The Untold Story of Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Fellowship
AuthorRoger Friedland
ISBN0060393882
Frank Lloyd Wright was renowned during his life not only as an architectural genius, but as a subject of controversy -- from his radical design innovations to his turbulent private life, including the notorious mass murder that occurred at his Wisconsin estate, Taliesin, in 1914. Yet, as this landmark...
Gothic: Four Hundred Years of Excess, Horror, Evil and Ruin
AuthorRichard Davenport-Hines
ISBN0865475903
Beginning with the eruption of Vesuvius in 1631, an event so powerful it created a new landscape and inspired the desolate and savage paintings of Salvator Rosa, Richard Davenport-Hines traces the evolution of the gothic imagination. This revelatory history ranges through art, architecture, gardening,...
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
AuthorMartin McDonagh
ISBN0571345301
After months pass without a culprit in her daughter's murder case, Mildred Hayes pays for three signs challenging the authority of William Willoughby, the town's revered chief of police. When his second-in-command, Officer Dixon, a mother's boy with a penchant for violence, gets involved, the battle...
Malice in the Highlands
AuthorGraham Thomas
ISBN0804116571
INTRODUCING ERSKINE POWELL OF SCOTLAND YARD
Crime, investigation, punishment. They're all in a day's work to Detective Chief Superintendent Erskine Powell of New Scotland Yard. As a member of the Yard's Murder Squad, Powell tracks miscreants all over London.
Now, seeking distance from...
Yesterday
AuthorÁgota Kristóf
ISBN0099268078
Tobias abbandona il proprio paese dopo aver tentato di uccidere madre e padre con una sola coltellata e finisce per fare l'operaio qualsiasi in fabbrica. Raggiunge una specie di normalità narcotica che lo rinchiude in un isolamento da asceta, la cui unica forma di espressione sarà la scrittura e...
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