Omnibus: Gods & Monsters (ePub)

Three fantastic novels:

Freaks
A strange Circus travels around the world, showcasing unique phenomena. Under the direction of the Magnificent Santini, bizarre creatures perform on stage. Their bodies remind of ancient mythological creatures. The Magnificent owns them, controls their lives, especially their unions, hoping to produce new phenomena. When he decides to pair the two stars of the show, everyone's resentment is on him. Because Penelope, the spider woman who can create wonderful cobwebs, is just a little girl while HE is considered a monster. Raised in a cage like a beast, without a name, subjected to any overthrow to make it fiercer, he does not speak and feeds only with blood. He does not know she has always loved him since they were kids, and she can finally have him. But Penelope's choice could be another. She might not even agree to be used again, to do something foolish, to unleash a deadly, hungry, and hateful creature in the world.

Circe
Irene is an exile, condemned to wander the Earth in a never-ending, desperate search. Her love is poison: merciless and deadly. Anyone who lies with her is doomed to suffer a horrifying fate: their animal instincts take over their whole being until there is no humanity left inside them. The wretched creatures take on the appearance of pigs, with no hope of salvation. But one day, during a cruise, Irene’s desire gets the better of her. She gives in to temptation, despite the difficulty of covering her tracks on a cruise ship. Her latest victim is a public figure, too well-known for his disappearance to go unnoticed, and she soon finds that the pig that he turns into isn’t easy to hide. In fact, one of the ship’s stewards discovers the pig before she can get rid of it. But one mistake leads to another, and Irene just can’t stop herself. She must continue her eternal quest, searching her own character for the only thing that can break the curse.

The Ballad of Pario
Luca’s thoughts - his hopes and dreams - centred on one thing, and one thing only: his neighbour, Laura. She was his first crush, and she had turned into a full-scale obsession. He liked to spy on her, watching her every move, and he was always making up excuses to run into her, but all his efforts seemed to be in vain. He had finally managed to arrange everything perfectly - he had the house to himself and he had screwed up his courage, ready to ask her out on a date - but those damn deer ruined everything. Those awful, too-big animals that could walk through walls were the last thing he needed. They weren’t even ghosts, not by any stretch of the imagination, because they left devastation in their wake wherever they went. He had no idea where they could have come from, given that he and Laura lived right at the top of a skyscraper. But maybe they could provide the perfect opportunity to win Laura over, to show her how brave he was. If only he didn’t have to contend with that pain-in-the-arse Parry, the dark-haired guy who lived across the hall. Parry was handsome, mournful and so tragic; and always so damn perfect. Of course Laura had fallen under his spell, the poor thing. Luca couldn’t compete - he knew that all too well - Parry was just perfect in every way. But Parry had a secret: he knew perfectly well where the deer were coming from, and, moreover, why they were there. He knew that they were merely the vanguard of an ancient and deadly menace that was about to arrive, threatening them all.