Melanie Tem Libri

Un’angosciante presenza vaga tra le case sonnacchiose e i verdi prati che costituiscono il mondo dell’adolescente Lucy Brill. Suo fratello Ethan è scomparso, minato dalla droga, ma qualcosa di lui aleggia nelle stanze che ha abitato: è un sussurro, un invito a Lucy a raggiungerlo, là dove giacciono il suo corpo e la sua mente. “Non temere, sarai la benvenuta”, la rassicura. Turbata e rabbiosa contro i genitori, che la credono vittima di incubi, lei lo seguirà… fino al luogo in cui il male stesso l’attende a braccia aperte…

Steve and Melanie Tem have expanded the ideas in the original award-winning story The Man on the Ceiling to create a compelling work that examines how people find a family, stay together despite incomprehensible tragedy, and, in the end, how they find love.

Over a career of 30+ years, Melanie Tem received the Bram Stoker, International Horror Guild, British Fantasy, and World Fantasy Awards for her writing, which included almost a hundred short stories, twelve solo novels, as well as scripts, poems, and storytelling performances. At the time of her death in 2015, she left behind numerous plays, several of which had been produced, but none had appeared in print. These plays arguably contain some of the finest writing of her final ten years. FRY DAY collects the best of these plays, along with a selection of her poetry.