Ten years later, the narrator of De Maria’s novel-a journalist-interviews one of the deceased's sister, a woman who “seemed to prefer one word above all the others: spirituality.” He meets with an “ear-witness” to the opening violence who heard several screams as the insomniacs traversed the city. In the violence of that psychosis, a number of people died or were killed. The place is Turin, Italy, where, in 1966, there was “a phenomenon of collective psychosis”: twenty days of mass insomnia, which had people wandering the city, zombie-like, at all hours. In his expression of existential-social terror, De Maria joins writers such as Lovecraft and Poe in crafting a peculiarly literary kind of horror. Giorgio De Maria's The Twenty Days of Turin features the worst of the worst-the abyss, the unnamable, the unknowable, all of which is a monstrosity as malevolent as can be.
The Twenty Days Of Turin is out on and is available from Amazon.A good horror story requires monstrosity. Given the rise of social media and the almost obsessive need of individuals today to share anything and everything about their lives, the themes of The Twenty Days Of Turin are more prescient now than ever before. The Twenty Days Of Turin is actually a forty year old novel by De Maria, and has enjoyed a cult following, but with this first English translation it is sure to find a wider audience. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create “the Library,” a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in “dialogues across the ether.” But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity.Īs the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day “phenomenon of collective psychosis” culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history. “ Given the rise of social media and the almost obsessive need of individuals today to share anything and everything about their lives, the themes of The Twenty Days Of Turin are more prescient now than ever before.” Look Out For … The Twenty Days Of Turin by Giorgio De Maria
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