How much suffering can one man take before he becomes more than that of a man? Would he break, or become something more? Told through the first-person perspective of our blind protagonist Louie, his story begins seemingly at every end he's come to in his life. Growing up in a world he can't remember, the one he's living in, along with the rules, keeps changing. Unable to tell the difference between dream and reality, a blind man's dreams merge his reality. Without her, he falls deep in the...

When two people have the same dream, it has to be more than just a coincidence. And what if the things you saw in that dream, were not original thoughts, but instructions, left to follow by the Ancient Ones that came so long before us? Inspired by the H.P Lovecraft's mind-bending Cthulhu Mythos, a group of lifelong and new teenaged friends gamble their lives by infiltrating a long-abandoned psychiatric center, with its own fair share of haunted history. When they unsuspectingly come across...

“Would you deny this a dream if I told you?" When the lines between dreams and reality merge, what is real? And what would you wish wasn’t real?Told through the first person perspective of an unpredictable and suspicious narrator, Chris Brennan. The journey begins in the very near future, in a small town lost between the spaces. When things take a drastic turn, forcing the characters to abandon their rhythmic lives, they now have to fight for their lives to survive. Discovering the...

«Gli studi raccolti in questo volume sono il frutto del XXXII Colloquio Malatestiano di Letteratura, dal titolo “L’inverosimile realistico e le coincidenze impossibili. Quando il racconto diventa immotivato, incoerente, improbabile” (Santarcangelo di Romagna, 28-29 maggio 2021).Pur riconoscendo il ruolo cruciale dell’inverosimile per lo statuto del meraviglioso, gli organizzatori hanno orientato le riflessioni dei partecipanti verso le forzature della verosimiglianza che caratterizz...

Im Herbst des Jahrs 1680 wird Paris von einer Reihe von Raubmorden erschüttert, bei denen die sogenannten "Unsichtbaren" wieder und wieder kostbare Juwelen erbeuten. Als Madelaine von Scuderi, eine Dichterin am Hofe König Ludwigs XIV. einige der geraubten Juwelen zugeschickt bekommt, wird sie in eine abgründige Geschichte gezogen. - E.T.A. Hoffmanns Novelle aus dem Jahr 1819 gilt als erste deutsche Kriminalerzählung.