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Sister Perpetue is not to move. She is not to fall asleep. She is to sit, keeping guard over the patient’s room. She has heard the stories of his hunger, which defy belief: that he has eaten all manner of creatures and objects. A child even, if the rumours are to be believed. But it is hard to believe that this slender, frail man is the one they once called The Great Tarare, The Glutton of Lyon.

England, 1643. Parliament is battling the King; the war between the Roundheads and the Cavaliers rages. Puritanical fervour has gripped the nation, and the hot terror of damnation burns black in every shadow. In Manningtree, depleted of men since the wars began, the women are left to their own devices. At the margins of this diminished community are those who are barely tolerated by the affluent villagers - the old, the poor, the unmarried, the sharp-tongued.

Brought to you by Penguin. Unleash the dark and delirious with this electrifying anthology of folk horror from some of Britain's most iconic working-class voices A phonograph cylinder that plays on a loop for eternity, casting out ghostly spectres of violence; a centuries-old stew made of...

Inghilterra, 1643. Il Parlamento combatte contro il re, la guerra civile infuria, il fervore puritano attanaglia il Paese e il terrore della dannazione brucia dietro ogni ombra. A Manningtree, una cittadina della contea dell’Essex privata dei suoi uomini fin dall’inizio della guerra, le donne sono abbandonate a se stesse; soprattutto alcune di loro, che vivono ai margini della comunità: le anziane, le povere, le non sposate, quelle dalla lingua affilata.

Sul giovane Tarare se ne dicono tante. Pare che abbia divorato ogni sorta di creatura: oggetti, animali, perfino una bambina. Ma lasciamo a lui l’onere...