Venerare
A foul smell invades a young writer's room, tearing him away from his work. In an attempt to find the source of the stench, he looks outside and sees that others have also climbed out the windows in search of the same answer. The answer turns out to be their neighbor, whom everyone calls the Greek and who recently died...
To everyone's amazement, the Greek's body begins to levitate in his apartment, which leads to a series of events that culminate in his proclamation as a saint. However, this is only the beginning - the man's death opens the door for the young writer to a new, unknown universe and a parallel world located between the panel blocks, garages and basements.
In this new world, inhabited by blind cats and ghosts of the past, dream and reality carry the reader into a hypnotic dance of dark brutality.
Flavius Ardelean
Flavius Ardelean-Bachmann is a Romanian award-winning writer of dark fiction, the author of nine novels and three short story collections for adults and children. His works has been translated into German, Russian and Hungarian, and he made his English-language debut in the first volume of the Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories.
Flavius has a master of arts in publishing from the Oxford International Centre for Publishing Studies, with a dissertation on the horror book industry, and has translated fiction from English and German into Romanian, most notably the cult classic The Other Side by Alfred Kubin.
He lives in Germany.
