Preorder: A Different Darkness and Other Abominations Luigi Musolino

[Valancourt Books]

Now available for preorder! As Brian Evenson writes in his introduction, "Musolino has a strong and original voice and uses it to get to some uniquely dark places. Rather than blood or gore, he’s ultimately interested in what’s truly terrifying: the vertiginous darkness that threatens to open up and swallow us. A darkness that calls to us, calls to us, until we can’t help but answer and stumble toward it." Set among the plains and mountains of Musolino's native Piedmont and drawing on Italian folkloric traditions, these tales may have an Italian flavor to them, but the strangeness and horror they explore are universal.



Book 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 ...

Preorder now! Coming November 2022
​The first 300 website orders for the case laminate hardcover edition will receive a bookplate/postcard signed by the author

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[Justin]

Ooh this sounds interesting

[Valancourt Books]

Early praise for A DIFFERENT DARKNESS:

‘Luigi Musolino enters the territories of superstition and folklore knowing that fairy tales are always terrible and legends hide unspeakable truths. Small towns, supermarkets, apartments, schools or farms: when horror touches reality, it becomes the only thing that exists. These stories have a distinctly European feel: there’s a sense of old but not quite forgotten rituals, a touch of Pan and the deities that still linger behind the haunted fields and forests.’
– Mariana Enríquez, author of Things We Lost in the Fire and Our Share of Night

‘An experience worthy of David Cronenberg, a sick and monstrous universe where authors like Barker and Ligotti would feel right at home.’
– Nicola Lombardi, author of The Gypsy Spiders

[Nancy]

Great job with this one! On the last story now. "Pupils" was outstanding.

[Char]

Nancy wrote: "Great job with this one! On the last story now. "Pupils" was outstanding."

Right? The word play with Pupils was something else.

This is one of my top ten story collections of ALL TIME.

[Nancy]

Char wrote: "Nancy wrote: "Great job with this one! On the last story now. "Pupils" was outstanding."

Right? The word play with Pupils was something else.

This is one of my top ten story collections of ALL T..."

Oh yes! The word play was awesome, adding another dimension of horror to this story.

[Valancourt Books]

Glad you both enjoyed it!!