Moon Lake

by Joe R. Lansdale, Luca Briasco (Translator)

Daniel ha solo quattordici anni quando una sera di ottobre la sua infanzia naufraga nelle acque buie del Moon Lake. Per tutto il tempo la verità è rimasta nascosta sotto lo scintillio della luna. Ma adesso, per «Danny», è arrivato il momento di dare un senso al suo dolore. «La luna è alta. L'acqua è alta. Anime oscure vagano sulla terra e piangono. È una vecchia poesia. Ora so cosa significa», sono le ultime parole che Daniel Russell sente pronunciare a suo padre, in una notte del 1968, poco prima di lanciarsi con la macchina nel Moon Lake. Dieci anni dopo, quando l'auto e i resti del padre vengono recuperati, Daniel scopre tra le macerie qualcosa di scioccante, destinato a scuotere la piccola città fino al suo nucleo più marcio. «Papà inserì la prima e avanzò un po', dando una leggera spinta all'acceleratore. Fui contento all'idea che finalmente ci muovessimo da lì. – Voglio che tu sappia quanto ti voglio bene, – disse. Prima che potessi rispondere «anche io ti voglio bene», diede una forte accelerata, la macchina scattò in avanti e il ponte tremò. Girò il volante a destra e la grossa Buick, con le sue cinque rate ancora da pagare, sfondò la ringhiera marcia e si fiondò nello spazio come un razzo».

Genres: Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Fiction, Mystery Thriller, Crime, Audiobook

360 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 22, 2021

About the author

Champion Mojo Storyteller Joe R. Lansdale is the author of over forty novels and numerous short stories. His work has appeared in national anthologies, magazines, and collections, as well as numerous foreign publications. He has written for comics, television, film, newspapers, and Internet sites. His work has been collected in more than two dozen short-story collections, and he has edited or co-edited over a dozen anthologies. He has received the Edgar Award, eight Bram Stoker Awards, the Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the British Fantasy Award, the Grinzani Cavour Prize for Literature, the Herodotus Historical Fiction Award, the Inkpot Award for Contributions to Science Fiction and Fantasy, and many others. His novella Bubba Ho-Tep was adapted to film by Don Coscarelli, starring Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis. His story "Incident On and Off a Mountain Road" was adapted to film for Showtime's "Masters of Horror," and he adapted his short story "Christmas with the Dead" to film hisownself. The film adaptation of his novel Cold in July was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and the Sundance Channel has adapted his Hap & Leonard novels for television.

He is currently co-producing several films, among them The Bottoms, based on his Edgar Award-winning novel, with Bill Paxton and Brad Wyman, and The Drive-In, with Greg Nicotero. He is Writer In Residence at Stephen F. Austin State University, and is the founder of the martial arts system Shen Chuan: Martial Science and its affiliate, Shen Chuan Family System. He is a member of both the United States and International Martial Arts Halls of Fame. He lives in Nacogdoches, Texas with his wife, dog, and two cats.