The Mystery of Villa Polyphemus
Maria Elisa Aloisi
The Evil Twenty
Mystery
What would the stories we love be without the villains?
Twenty original stories in one book that promises to recreate the exact moment when twenty great villains from literature like Dracula, the Bogeyman, Mr Hyde, Captain Hook, Cthulhu, the Wicked Witch of the West, Snow White’s stepmother, and the demon Lilith, felt the flower of evil bloom inside, transforming them into the most disturbing dark figures of all time.
The greatest villains of all time describe how the evil began.
Multifaceted characters to help us better understand both them and, perhaps, ourselves.
- A complete overview of imaginary evil to save us from the evil in the real world.
- Beautiful illustrations by Paolo Barbieri, considered one of the greatest Italian fantasy illustrators.
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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