"A disturbing, unsettling novel . . . if it had been published in English soon after its first appearance in Italian (1968), the name of Giorgio De Maria would be wellknown, his novels and stories mentioned in the context of J.G. Ballard, Anna Kavan, Shirley Jackson or Robert Aickman."Lisa Tuttle, Nebula Award winner and author of Gabriel, Windhaven, and The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross. Before an untimely mental breakdown cut short his twodecade career, Giorgio De Maria distinguished himself as one of Italys most unique and eccentric weird fiction masters. With a background in the postwar literary culture of Turin Italys urbane but eerie "city of black magic" De Maria drew inspiration from the Turinese underbelly of occultism, secret societies and radical politics. His writing coincided with the decade of terrorist violence known to Italians as the Years of Lead theoutcome was a weird fiction suffused with panic, rage, trauma, paranoia and meditations on antisocial hubris. In 1978, he told an interviewer "...I think that the dimension of the fantastic, as much as this may seem paradoxical, is the most fitting one to express a reality as complex as ours today." De Marias debut novel,The Transgressionists(1968)portrays a cell of malicious telepaths who meet in thecafs and jazz clubs of 1960s Turin to plot world domination.After experiencing the worst of their power, an embittered office clerk resolves to join them and prove himself worthy to share in...

Binding: Paperback;264 pages; Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing; Classification: FK; Weight: 444 g; Dimensions: 152 x 228 x 22

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