The River Girls
Alessandra Ubezio
The Winds of Evil
Mystery
What would the stories we love be without the villains?
Twenty original tales in a book that aims to reconstruct the exact moment when the greatest villains in literature felt the bloom of evil within them, transforming into the most unsettling dark figures of all time. Dracula, the Boogeyman, Mr. Hyde, the Queen of Hearts, Long John Silver, the Fairy Morgana, Dr. Frankenstein, and many other villains. They are the ones who give dignity to the shadowy sides of the human soul and make us experience the strongest and most conflicting emotions; they teach us that there is only one “right path.”
To better understand them, and perhaps ourselves.
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A complete overview of imaginary evil to save us from real evil.
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The illustrations are by the master of Italian fantasy, Paolo Barbieri.
Publisher:
Mondadori
Target:
12+
Year:
2020
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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