Tutti i racconti: 1931-1936

8 best books like Tutti i racconti: 1931-1936 (H.P. Lovecraft): Carmilla, The Masque of the Red Death, Là-Bas, Der Sandmann, Un infinito numero. Virgilio e Mecenate nel paese dei Rasna, Le stagioni di Giacomo, Professor Andersens natt, Una vita

Carmilla
AuthorJ. Sheridan Le Fanu
ISBN0809510839
Bloody relevant to read!


BEFORE DRACULA, THERE WAS...

But to die as lovers may - to die together, so that they may live together.

This is a very important book in historic sense, in the genre of vampire reading, due that it was published 25 years before than Dracula....
The Masque of the Red Death
AuthorEdgar Allan Poe
ISBN1594567395
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...
Là-Bas
AuthorJoris-Karl Huysmans
ISBN0486228371

La-bas (English Down There)--with its explicit account of child sex-murders and its detailed description of a black mass—may benefit from its transgressive reputation but also suffers from it too. Readers who come to it seeking thrills and horrors will be alternately bored and disappointed,...
Der Sandmann
AuthorE.T.A. Hoffmann
ISBN3458326340
I read this rather (no very) creepy tale years ago, and while I truly enjoyed and above all appreciated E. T. A. Hoffmann's Der Sandmann, I also do not much feel like a detailed and intense rereading at this time, as the plot, the thematics actually repeatedly produced some rather vivid and glaring nightmares...
AuthorSebastiano Vassalli
ISBN8806147455
Timodemo, ex schiavo di origine greca, racconta di quando accompagnò il suo padrone e Mecenate in terra etrusca per scoprire le origini di Roma, che Virgilio, per volere di Augusto, avrebbe dovuto immortalare in un grande poema. Giunti nella città sacra di Sacni, i due cives romani e il liberto riescono...
Le stagioni di Giacomo
AuthorMario Rigoni Stern
ISBN8806144022
Una piccola comunità dell'altipiano di Asiago esce stremata dalla Grande Guerra: ovunque macerie, povertà, disoccupazione. Chi non emigra ha davanti a sé un solo, pericoloso mestiere, quello del "recuperante": battere la montagna alla ricerca di residui bellici da rivendere ai grossisti...
Professor Andersens natt
AuthorDag Solstad
ISBN8270947644
An existential murder story. A master of Norwegian literature critiques contemporary society with wry wit.

It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle...
Una vita
AuthorItalo Svevo
ISBN8845202178
A Life is the gruelling story of the frustrated existence of a bank clerk with a poetic soul. The artistic aspirations of the protagonist and the emptiness of his daily life become tragic in the great divide between what he wants and what he actually has and gets. Alfonso the bank clerk wants to be a poet...
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