The twenty days of Turin

187 pages

English language

Published Jan. 1, 2017

ISBN:
978-1-63149-229-7
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OCLC Number:
951070899

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5 stars (1 review)

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create "the Library," a space where lonely citizens can read one anothers 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 Librarys users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity. As 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. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. Inevitably drawn into the citys occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: whats shared can never be unshared.

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Unsettling cosmic horror that feels uniquely online despite being written in the 70s

5 stars

1970s cosmic horror about a creepy Italian town. Has a library that predicted the insanity of the internet, self-censorship and social atomization leading to insomnia, weirdo correspondences, and fascism.

Maybe a whack comparison, but imagine The Plague by Camus but make it good sicko shit.

Subjects

  • Horror tales
  • Hysteria (Social psychology)
  • Privacy
  • Fear
  • Fiction