You like it darker. Salto nel buio
Translated title: You Like it Darker
Author: King, Stephen
Genre: Horror / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 544 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87873
Translated
'You like it darker? Fine, so do I', writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life - both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel 'the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind', and in You Like it Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.
'Two Talented Bastids' explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In 'Danny Coughlin's Bad Dream', a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny's most catastrophically. In 'Rattlesnakes', a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance - with major strings attached. In 'The Dreamers', a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. 'The Answer Man' asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful
Downhill
Author: Valladares, Patricio
Genre: Graphic Novels / Horror
Year: 2026 | Pages: 80 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91769
After the death of his best friend, cyclist Joe enters a race in Chile to move on. But a test ride with his girlfriend, Stephanie, turns into a nightmare: the discovery of a man infected with a virus makes them the targets of ruthless assassins intent on protecting a dark secret.
Downhill is an adrenaline-fueled journey through horror, violence, and hostile nature, where the only law is survival. The trails become traps, and a threat lurks in the shadows, ready to strike. Based on Patricio Valladares' cult film, this comic book adaptation will captivate you and drag you to the final race
Sulla bocca della gente - Racconti dal Brasile del XXI secolo
Translated title: On the Lips of the People - Stories from 21st Century Brazil
Author: Various Authors
Genre: Short Stories / Social Novel
Year: 2024 | Pages: 152 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87859
Magical and cruel, Brazil is the country of the most famous carnival in the world, the land of samba and the Amazon river, but it is also the country of the favelas and of many negated rights.
A long literary tradition has also given us characters who have become firmly established in our imagination.
Today a new generation of writers and writers is facing the cultural and social panorama of the country, a generation that, outside of the now obsolete formula, reflects on modern life, registering the individual's sadness in his daily existence
Flora
Author: Robecchi, Alessandro
Genre: Thriller
Year: 2021 | Pages: 365 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 79863
Thriller
Dal rosa al viso - Una saga familiare nell'Italia risorgimentale
Translated title: From Rose to Face
Author: Bellardi, Angela Delgrosso
Genre: Family Saga
Year: 2023 | Pages: 340 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87867
The novel is a dive into the past. It is a meeting of great and small history, particularly the epic tale of the Risorgimento and the ups and downs of two young people whose destinies crossed one day.
With clear, compelling prose, brimming with thoughts and emotions, the author offers a surprising glimpse into life in 19th-century Piedmont, starting with the Anzasca Valley at the foot of Monte Rosa and then moving on to the beautiful and vibrant Saluzzo, overlooking Monviso.
The pages brim with real life, simple and powerful in its authenticity, and the author's pride in depicting characters who are not borrowed from her imagination to develop a realistic story, but rather real people, retracing her family tree and somehow bringing them to life through a reconstruction as faithful as possible of their passage on this earth
La bestia
Translated title: The Beast
Author: Mola, Carmen
Genre: Thriller / Historical
Year: 2024 | Pages: 490 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87874
Translated
MADRID, 1834, A HORRENDOUS CATASTROPHE. BUT TERROR HAS ANOTHER NAME.
Madrid, 1834: a terrible cholera epidemic has brought the city to its knees. But terror also has another name, that of the Beast: a ruthless and elusive being who kidnaps little girls from the poorest neighborhoods and dismembers their bodies. When little Clara disappears, her sister Lucía doesn't want to wait to find her body: thus begins her fight against evil and against time. She is fourteen years old and has the unquenchable courage of someone who feels powerless. Especially because no one seems to want to truly stop the monster.
Except Diego, a stubborn and reckless journalist, who also drags his friend Donoso, a cynical but loyal one-eyed policeman, into the investigation. Their frantic search will involve guerrilla monks, ambassadors, and prostitutes, while a secret society weaves its fatal intrigues between taverns and salons, palaces and hospitals. It's the dawn of a capital born in blood, a city teeming with life and death, struggling to leave the Middle Ages behind.
Spanish Planeta Award winner, a relentless and moving historical thriller, an atmosphere as breathtaking as the coils of the serpent on the cover. Reading it, you'll find yourself right there, in the alleys of Madrid, in a story of hell and darkness
Jane e il mistero della principessa. Le indagini di Jane Austen
Translated title: Jane and the Princess Mystery: Jane Austen's Investigations
Author: Barron, Stephanie
Genre: Mystery / Thriller
Year: 2026 | Pages: 272 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 91768
Translated
A Russian noblewoman, precious jewels, a conspiracy to uncover.
London, 1811. Fresh from writing Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen joins her brother Henry, a brilliant banker, and his charming wife Eliza in their elegant home on Sloane Street. Immersed in a world of witty conversations, glittering gowns, and receptions, Jane observes with discretion and irony this microcosm of ambition, secrets, and vanity. But not even her keen eye is prepared for the scandal that erupts when the private correspondence between a Russian princess and an influential Tory minister is suddenly made public, much less for the tragedy that follows: the beautiful Evgenia Cholikova is found with her throat slit right outside the residence of the minister, Lord Castlereagh.
While public opinion whispers of a romantic suicide and gossip tarnishes the princess's reputation, Jane does not believe the official version. Her doubts, however, become unsettling when a web of coincidences places her and Eliza at the center of the investigation as prime suspects. Why would someone want to frame them? And who, behind the scenes of high society, had an interest in eliminating the princess? With only seven days to prove her innocence, Jane is forced to delve into the halls of power and the boudoirs of the most influential courtesans, on the trail of a murderer capable of threatening not only her life, but also the fate of England
Il Nido del Pettirosso
Translated title: The Robin's Nest
Author: Sartori, Lorenzo
Genre: Thriller / Crime
Year: 2024 | Pages: 336 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87876
The sudden disappearance of a young girl brings to light a terrible murder that occurred in the past and was never forgotten.
In Alveno, a small village nestled in the mountains of Trentino, Alice has left behind her most beautiful and her most harrowing memories. After a few years away, she's heading there with her lifelong friends. They're in the car, headed to Nido del Pettirosso, the hotel her parents ran when she was a child. Her mother, Laura, has now decided to sell it to put the tragic events that had occurred nearby behind her. Eleven years earlier, her sister Sara had been found dead at the bottom of a ravine. How things really happened remains a mystery, but her family, in the meantime, has fallen apart.
The next day, Laura receives a call from the police: the car Alice was traveling in had ended up in a ditch; she and a friend had left to call for help, and no one had heard from them since. Laura rushes to the scene to follow the investigation, led by the fierce Inspector Valenti. Could it be that the mountain wants to take her only remaining daughter?
All the fears and doubts of the past reappear like unwelcome guests from the windows of the now-empty rooms of the Robin's Nest: what happened to Alice? Is her disappearance somehow linked to Sara's death? Will Laura and Inspector Valenti be able to find the girl before the irreparable happens again?
A gripping thriller about the courage of a mother who, through a painful journey into the past, will manage to find hope, but not before facing another terrifying experience amidst distressing memories and ghosts that have come to torment her
Chimerica - Antologia di racconti fantasy
Translated title: Chimerica - Anthology of Fantasy Stories
Author: Pav Edizioni
Genre: Fantasy / Short Stories
Year: 2024 | Pages: 290 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87862
'Our chimeras are those that most resemble us' (Victor Hugo).
Wonderful and cruel territories, of distant worlds and of the human soul, explored through the actions and doubts of multifaceted characters, both determined and fragile, both fantastic and dramatically real. Is love salvation or damnation, when does it come to bear its extreme moral consequences?
What can you do if you can sacrifice the power of your freedom and liberty? What happens when he sees the loss come back to his senses and his fear? Is it worse than rancor? If it can be configured incorrectly?
The question I ask about is the story of Chimerica: the story of warriors, of magic, of ancient orders, of demons and dragons, of the story of vile gains and noble revenge, of the intrigue of dynastic intrigues carried out without scruples, along the border between peace and destruction, on the field where courage and horror caught in the heat of battle are measured
Il villaggio perduto
Translated title: The Lost Village
Author: Sten, Camilla
Genre: Horror / Thriller
Year: 2024 | Pages: 370 | Origin: ITA | BA Seq Num: 87870
Translated
Documentary filmmaker Alice Lindstedt has been obsessed with the vanishing residents of the old mining town, dubbed 'The Lost Village,' since she was a little girl. In 1959, her grandmother's entire family disappeared in this mysterious tragedy, and ever since, the unanswered questions surrounding the only two people who were left - a woman stoned to death in the town center and an abandoned newborn - have plagued her. She's gathered a small crew of friends in the remote village to make a film about what really happened.
But there will be no turning back.
Not long after they've set up camp, mysterious things begin to happen. Equipment is destroyed. People go missing. As doubt breeds fear and their very minds begin to crack, one thing becomes startlingly clear to Alice:
They are not alone.
They're looking for the truth...
But what if it finds them first?
