The Terrible Days of Awful Fear

A novel about fear as the dominant emotion of our time

Week after week, they meet in a pub to tell each other their worst fears – an unusual project which Christoph has invited all of them to join. He is a director, and they are actors, set designers, film editors or just friends. They are afraid of darkness, of love, loneliness, reptiles, madness or mixed-up medical files. Their stories will inspire the screenplay for the horror movie The Ghastly Horror. After months of preparation, they finally begin to shoot the film – and realize that Christoph’s ideas are much more radical than they thought.

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  • Publisher: S. FISCHER
  • Release: 16.03.2017
  • ISBN: 978-3-10-002531-9
  • 640 Pages
  • Author: Roman Ehrlich
The Terrible Days of Awful Fear
Roman Ehrlich The Terrible Days of Awful Fear
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Roman Ehrlich

Roman Ehrlich, born in 1983 in Aichach, grew up in Neuburg an der Donau, studied at the German Literature Institute in Leipzig and at the Free University of Berlin. His books "Das kalte Jahr" (2013), "Urwaldgäste" (2014), "Das Theater des Krieges" (2017, with Michael Disqué) and "Die fürchterlichen Tage des schrecklichen Grauens" (2017) have been published to date. His novel "Malé", which was longlisted for the German Book Prize, was published in 2020.