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Kuolleen Silmät: Kertomuksia Tuntemattoman Ovilta

1926

Mika Waltari

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Kuolleen Silmät: Kertomuksia Tuntemattoman Ovilta

Mika Waltari

1926

Short Stories

A teenager wrote this. Not a matured master revising his early work, but a seventeen-year-old Finn channeling Edgar Allan Poe through a distinctly Nordic darkness. The result is a collection of horror stories that ripple with raw ambition and genuine unease. The stories range far: a dying Viking king pursues a fabled island and becomes obsessed with a supernatural goddess statue; a sinister wager in a graveyard involving a nail and a coffin turns genuinely chilling; a young law student in a cramped apartment feeds his cocaine habit until reality begins to tear at the seams. There are Egyptian pyramids, cursed artifacts, and poems that open the collection like a prayer to something ancient and hungry. The atmosphere is thick, the deaths are uncanny, and beneath every tension runs an undercurrent of erotic dread. This is not polished Gothic revival. This is a young writer reaching toward the unknown and finding something staring back.

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A collection of short stories written in the early 20th century. The book delves into eerie and mysterious tales, often...

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Kuolleen silmät on ilmestynyt alunperin Holger Schildtin kustantamana 1926 salanimellä Kristian Korppi. Uuteen laitoksee...

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