Fantasy And Mystery - 10 Authors Measure Themselves Against The Great Mysteries Of Our History

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Fantasy and Mystery by AAVV 


10 Authors measure themselves against the great Mysteries of our History. 


Fantamisteri, Fantastic Mysteries, Fantasy and Mystery ... many different ways (even if we recognized ourselves more in the first one) to define this collection of stories, written by ten different authors, who wanted to try to investigate the Mystery and the Fantastic, ranging from History to Fantasy, from the Yellow that is tinged with Horror to the Thriller that borders on Science Fiction, from Time Travel to Esotericism, from ancient Relics to Fantahorror, with a pinch of Eroticism ... In short, the authors have indulged themselves, each based on to one's own culture, one's creativity, one's favorite themes of inspiration, in telling stories in which the Mystery and the Fantastic are the two pivots around which the narrated events revolve. 


What unites these stories, albeit so different in terms of themes, style, reasons of inspiration? The fact of having chosen famous people from History, Literature, Cinema, as protagonists, and having made them interact with equally famous objects, environments, situations, places. In fact, it goes from the Alchemical Caves to the Bermuda Triangle, from the Holy Grail to the Holy Shroud, with characters such as Constantine emperor, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, D'Artagnan, the Wizard Merlin, Don Giovanni, Annibale, Agatha Marple, George Orwell, Tolkien , Wagner as protagonists and not only, because alongside the great there is also a number of characters who at first glance may seem "minor" but who, instead, are functional to the story and enrich it.

Disponível desde: 22/07/2022.

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