{"product_id":"a-different-darkness-and-other-abominations-9781954321731","title":"A Different Darkness and Other Abominations","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe highly original and truly terrifying folk horror of Italy's Luigi Musolino was introduced to an international audience in the acclaimed \u003cem\u003eThe Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and now at last an entire volume of the author's best work - eight stories and three novellas - is available in English for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 'Lactic Acid', a jogger takes an unfamiliar shortcut and quickly finds himself trapped in a nightmare from which there may be no escape. In 'Uironda', a strange urban legend overheard at a rest stop becomes a horrifying reality for one truck driver. 'The Last Box' tells of a grieving contortionist's plan to make contact with his dead trapeze artist wife by twisting his body into the abstruse angles of her mangled corpse. And in the title novella, after a little girl vanishes in a supermarket, her parents find a strange solace when they find a bottomless pit in their basement from which her laughter seems to echo - but the abyss's shimmering darkness is not what it seems ...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMusolino's tales, set among the plains and mountains of his native Piedmont, are uniquely Italian, but the darkness he probes is universal. As Brian Evenson writes in the 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.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'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 \u003cem\u003eThe Gypsy Spiders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Valancourt Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50930122359058,"sku":"9781954321731","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f511109c-b9d2-4b40-be08-9d39a40da4bf.jpg?v=1739063694","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/a-different-darkness-and-other-abominations-9781954321731","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}