Omnibus: Creatures (ePub)

Four fantastic novels:

Slaughterhouse
The day my father died, I witnessed a murder. It happened at a movie theatre, during a screening. The victim was an obnoxious person – my cousin Giulia. Maybe I only dreamt it, because she was eaten by the rest of the audience – by everyone. Then it happened again, at the amusement park, and this time it couldn’t have been a dream. The assassins were the same people. I followed them. I went there, to the Municipal Slaughterhouse. They work there, I’ve been spying them for a while. By day they seem absolutely normal people, but by night… I must do it. I must get in there. They’ve put up a sign, they’re looking for a guy just like me. I need to discover who they are and what they do. Why do they kill?

The Chalk Garden
A villa abandoned for more than a century, an immense park. Amongst the trees hundreds and hundreds of statues, sculpted from chalk. Originally they depicted monstrous creatures, but by now no one can see them. With the passing of the years they deteriorated, decomposed, and now a white blanket has covered the entire garden, erasing life itself. An old blind military man goes to visit the garden every day. Waiting, for a long time. Waiting for a woman, Angelique. The beautiful nurse who, over fifty years ago, in Indochina, devoured his eyes. He knows she will come back one day, because that is her home, and he is ready to face her. He is willing to sacrifice anything to get his revenge, even becoming a murderer.

Palm Trees
At the end of the city, at the bottom of a ghostly street, which only one year ago was inhabited and full of life, there was a tall black wall. That place is where she would like to go, something about that wall attracts her. Something so strong that can make her rip her life apart and go to a tropical island. On a beach surrounded by palm trees where the sand is pink. These moments of losing consciousness are destroying her life, she would do anything to block them. Also get into the factory where everything started. Only one year ago there was a catastrophe of enormous proportions, the consequences of which are still evident. It looks abandoned but it is not, its enemy is there. Something unexpected, totally alien, deadly and dangerous, which cannot forgive her, because its only desire is to devour her.

Luce
Luce is beautiful as the sun. Luce is fragile and delicate. Luce has everything she lacks. Pina hates her, even if she’s her sister. Luce has Vito, the guy she has always wanted. She is only missing something, only one thing. Anything that can make her become human, because she is not. When the secret is discovered, Pina becomes conscious of the terrible life her sister has had until now. Segregated, un-protected. Supervised, a stranger to the whole world. If there is an only hope for her to lead a normal life, it can only be found there, in that lost convent lost in the mountains, where she was born. A temple where the Mother is worshipped and not the Son. Where she could find total loss or salvation.