Description: "Each of these stories is steeped in terror. Buzzati is the gatekeeper to our collective nightmares, poised on the threshold between the drawing room and existential hell. Judith Landry's vibrant translations render him at once witty and sinister." -- Jhumpa Lahiri "Out of a gothic tale...Frightening, lyrical, and provocative." -- New York Times "Weird, wild, and wonderful...There are shades of Fellini, shades of Dickens, shades of the great Italian horror director Mario Bava." -- Los Angeles Times "An extraordinary writer...[Buzzati's] writing feels timeless." -- The Independent "[A] fantasist and moralist in the vein of Kafka and possessed of a bold inventive power that shows his kinship with such other unconventional spirits as Poe, Gogol, Borges, Donald Barthelme, and his countryman Italo Calvino." -- Christian Science Monitor "Twenty riveting stories . . . Some of Buzzati's stories have the delicacy of fairy tales. . . Other stories have the visceral thrust of horror fiction. . . Buzzati's varied and immensely satisfying stories will appeal to readers receptive to the possibility of the bizarre behind the banal." -- Publishers Weekly "An evocative collection that might pull the rug from under your feet." -- Kirkus Reviews "[These stories] capture something of the national mood. They portray delicate psychologies, and are themselves psychologically delicate, full of premonitions and subtle turns." -- New Yorker

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