Now, in a fretful new age of 'lone-wolf' terrorism fueled by social media, we can find uncanny resonances in Giorgio De Maria’s vision of mass fear: a mute, palpitating dread that seeps into every moment of daily existence. Inevitably drawn into the city’s occult netherworld, he unearths the stuff of modern nightmares: what’s shared can never be unshared.Īn allegory inspired by the grisly neo-fascist campaigns of its day, The Twenty Days of Turin has enjoyed a fervent cult following in Italy for forty years. That is, until a lonely salaryman decides to investigate these mysterious events, which the citizenry of Turin fear to mention. As the city of Turin suffers a twenty-day 'phenomenon of collective psychosis' culminating in nightly massacres that hundreds of witnesses cannot explain, the Library is shut down and erased from history.

In the spare wing of a church-run sanatorium, some zealous youths create 'the Library,' a space where lonely citizens can read one another’s personal diaries and connect with like-minded souls in 'dialogues across the ether.' But when their scribblings devolve into the ugliest confessions of the macabre, the Library’s users learn too late that a malicious force has consumed their privacy and their sanity.

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