Ten Seconds Of Silence

Gianluca Testa

Publisher: Tektime

Summary

Ten Seconds of Silence is the definitive edition of Gianluca Testa's fiction horror story, written in 2003. Testa won the Fata Morgana Award for the best short story, The Terrace of the Spenalzo House, and the Alberto Moravia Award in 2004. Already published in Ghosts, remorse, absences, and darkness FATA MORGANA 8 CS Coop. Studi Libreria Editrice ISBN 8890145528 (2004) and, in installments, in the YELLOW NERO column of the current affairs weekly CRONACA VERA (2007). Gianluca Testa is an actor, so he wrote this story after a period of study on the psychology of the character of a psychopathic killer that he was supposed to play in the cinema. What are the thoughts of a psychopath? How many potential serial killers are hiding among us and never take the decisive step that leads them to the other side, to cross the thin wall that separates the only imagined evil from the real one? The author's answer is a frightening journey into the darkest depths of the human psyche.

Available since: 03/29/2022.

Print length: 20 pages.

Contemporary Fiction

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