Description
This brilliant new collection showcases the best short stories and novellas of one of Italy’s leading horror writers, now available in English for the first time. In ‘Lactic Acid’, a runner out for a jog through the countryside decides to take a shortcut that leads him straight into a nightmare. In ‘Uironda’, a jaded truck driver hears an eerie legend of a mysterious highway exit that leads to another dimension, but the reality of the horror he finds there is beyond his wildest imagination. In ‘The Stag’, a journalist covering a traditional festival in a small town finds himself lost in the woods with a monstrous and terrible deity. And in the title novella, after a girl vanishes from a supermarket without a trace, her grieving parents begin to find solace when they discover a bottomless hole in their basement from which the little girl’s voice seems to be coming. But the shimmering allure of that different darkness is not all it seems …