The repeated dream

By Eustachio Fontana

Enrico Miniati, a reserved professor of Italian literature, finds himself trapped in a mystery as captivating as it is unsettling. Each night, a recurring dream haunts him: standing before a mirror, he does not see his own face reflected back, but that of a young, tormented man with features belonging to another era. What begins as a strange nocturnal disturbance turns into a waking nightmare when, one morning, the young man's face appears in the rearview mirror of his car, causing Enrico to crash into the vehicle of an enigmatic woman named Margherita.
Urged by a psychoanalyst and desperate to escape the mounting chaos in his life, Enrico agrees to chaperone his students on a study trip to a boarding school deep in the English countryside. Yet what he hopes will be a reprieve soon draws him into darker territory. Ashford, cloaked in mist and frost, emanates an unsettling energy, as though time itself has fractured there.
Amidst abandoned cemeteries, the shadowy halls of a gothic college, and a town with a dual, otherworldly nature, Enrico becomes the unwilling protagonist of a supernatural tale.
Haunted by restless spirits seeking justice for a violent past, he is drawn deeper into a chilling mystery. As the boundaries between dream and reality blur, Enrico must confront his deepest fears, ultimately uncovering that the tormented face haunting him is not just a phantom of his dreams but the key to unraveling a long-buried, heinous crime.
A blend of psychological thriller and gothic horror, The Reflection of a Crime pulls readers into a gripping journey where guilt, redemption, and forgotten justice intertwine. Are you ready to uncover the truth hidden within the mirror?

'Death continues to speak through the essential epitaphs carved into the stone of tombs, with extreme conciseness, granting no space to the trivial clutter of life, but only to the lapidary essence of tragic stories. It speaks through the numbers of those who were: with the dates of their beginning and end, with the engraved age dictated by the fatality that turned them into cold bodies.
The spirits no longer speak to those who cannot hear their profound voice emanating from the earth that enfolds them. Everything seems silent, but it is not. Instead, it rebels, manifesting itself in dreams, in the tortuous paths of thoughts that arise in a state of suspended emotion, made more fertile by inaction and the absence of daily, repetitive gestures that obscure the passage from the dead souls to us.'

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0DWWXCRCL
• ISBN13: 9798309793310
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"