After two successful collections of horror short stories, comedian, writer, influencer, and incidentally devoted reader of horror books, Ilias Fountoulis, releases his first novel. An authentically Greek thriller. Where the nostalgia of the 90s meets a folk legend. – “Go to sleep, because Mesimeras will get you!”
Across Greece, in various versions, a story circulates, a folk belief passed from mouth to mouth from generation to generation. It is usually told to children on summer afternoons as an undefined threat: “Go to sleep, because Mesimeras will get you!”
Summer 1993: A group of children meets in a village in mountainous Arcadia. The place where they have always spent their summers since they were born.
The place where they feel safe and warm. Where nothing bad ever happens. They have left childhood behind, but they are not old enough not to be in danger from Mesimeras…
Summer is considered the best season of the year. Carefree, relaxed, happy. But for people to enjoy summer, somewhere, somehow, there must be a price. Mesimeras is a story about the one who comes to collect it.
