Cassandra Apollinaire's Prodigious Soul-Capturing Machine
Lucia Perrucci
Darkmare
Mystery
“How can you give a dream back to those who have lost it?”
Guido, a twelve-year-old boy, is irresistibly drawn to a book about Klaus Voynik, an enigmatic cursed director. However, the final pages, which recount his tragic death, are missing from the volume. Intrigued by the story, he travels to the place where Voynik filmed his last film, but the set has been transformed into a film-themed theme park. To solve the mystery, Guido only has the few hours before sunrise and must overcome the attractions that have suddenly become sinister and threatening. Because the night of the 30th of April is Walpurgis Night, the night on which, according to legend, spirits are allowed to return to Earth…
Publisher:
Gallucci
Target:
10+
Year:
2024
Author
Manlio Castagna
A screenwriter, director, writer and film critic, Manlio Castagna has also been involved in the artistic direction of the Giffoni Film Festival for more than 20 years. He made his debut in children’s fiction in 2018 with the bestselling Petrademone trilogy (Mondadori), which has been translated into several languages. Since then, he has explored many different genres: from historical fantasy with La notte delle malombre (The Night of the Malombre) and Draconis Chronicon, to horror with Goodwill and Le Belve (The Beasts), passing through the “story” of cinema with the manual 116 film da vedere prima dei 16 anni (116 Films To See Before You’re 16) and the novel Dedalo & Dharma, up to social noir with Barriera (all for the Mondadori group). La reincarnazione delle sorelle Klun (The Reincarnation of the Klun Sisters) and Prova a non dormire (Try Not to Sleep) are his adult fiction books. In 2022, he made his film debut as a director and screenwriter with “Il viaggio degli eroi”, produced by Rai Cinema and rewarded with record audience numbers on Rai1.
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