The harrowing childhood and life of Janet Frame, one of New Zealand’s greatest writers, who was once committed to a psychiatric hospital.

Suspecting that a judge, wanted by the police, has taken refuge in an insane asylum, a journalist asks a private detective to break into the institution, posing as both her husband and a patient.

Julia Ross has just been hired as a secretary by a wealthy widow, Mrs Hughes, but she is drugged and wakes up in an unknown place in Cornwall. She is told that she is Mrs Hughes’ daughter-in-law and that she has just been released from a psychiatric hospital.

A literary and biographical portrait of the American writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, continuator and renovator of the Gothic tradition and master of fantastic literature. His unique setting is a poor, dilapidated flat. It may be the New York flat where Lovecraft spent the painful years of his descent into hell. But perhaps it is also, and above all, the writer’s mental landscape. A landscape haunted by fear, ravaged by the pain of social failure and inner exile.

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In 1743 in the Val d’Oise: a vampiric epidemic spreads death and panic. The region is deserted. Two centuries later, the memory of past horrors has faded, civilisation has returned and modernity has taken hold. But one night, a mysterious black figure breaks into a couple’s home and steals the woman’s portrait. The next day, the husband, who has gone on a trip, leaves his wife at home alone. She sleepwalks and wanders through cemeteries. The nightmare begins…

Two suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reasons why two previous tenants hanged themselves in this very spot.

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In 18th-century Spain, Rebecca, the daughter of a great cabbalist promised a spiritual union with the Gemini, tries out her powers in a night of magic and conjurations

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Simon lives as a hermit at the top of a tower built in the middle of the desert. His activities are reduced to fasting and meditation. Sometimes he gets bored, and it’s in his moments of slackness that the devil comes to tempt him, appearing in various forms.

Renzo and Luciana work for the same large company, but because Luciana’s employment contract stipulates that she must remain single and not become pregnant, they are reduced to getting married in secret, on the pretext of a dental appointment.

On his last night as a bachelor, a man imagines what would happen if he ran away and avoided marriage, and wonders if he would be able to avoid “conventions” and have a sincere relationship with his girlfriend.

A man in dire straits hires a burglar to kill him later, then changes his mind when his fortune turns; he must then track down the contract killer before it’s too late.