The novelist Jean-Baptiste del Amo takes us to the pavilion of hysteria | EUROtoday

But when considered one of their comrades dies in troubled circumstances and sketches of the home, together with his “Horrible facade” and its “Black windows”are discovered by dozens within the deceased room, the small band has no alternative however to cross the edge. Especially since everybody remembers having already dreamed of this dwelling which, over the ever extra terrifying pages, strengthens its energy of attraction, to the purpose of turning into for all adolescents of the subdivision a obsession. “Thomas felt that something was tapi there, something he did not discern but which watched him from the unfathomable heart of the house and shuddered with desire that he could cross the threshold. »»

An engaging club of the five

Drawing its material from our desires and our childhood nightmares, The ravaged night Begins like a social novel, at the heart of suburban France (that of the 1990s), little represented in literature but invested in the 1970s by cinema, before bringing to life to its reader, soon sixth member of this endearing club of the Five, a physical experience that few novels are able to arouse.