北極熊阿拉斯加

 故事發(fā)生在塞內(nèi)加爾的大型建筑工地附近，晚上工人們與一名男子發(fā)生了沖突，男子的哥哥在工地因工傷喪生。

　　The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.

　　1858年，在博洛尼亞的猶太區(qū)，教皇的士兵闖入了莫塔拉家，按照樞機主教的命令，他們要搶走莫塔拉家的七歲兒子埃德加羅。這個孩子在嬰兒時期被保姆秘密洗禮，教皇法律是不容置疑的：他必須接受天主教教育。莫塔拉的父母心痛萬分，他們將不惜一切代價取回自己的兒子。在國際猶太社區(qū)和輿論 的支持下，莫塔拉家的斗爭很快就帶上了政治色彩。但是，教會和教皇不會同意歸還這個孩子，因為這有助于鞏固越來越動搖的權(quán)力……

醫(yī)生曾嚴禁丹妮懷孕，她卻意外誕下雙胞胎，命運的轉(zhuǎn)折讓母子三人接連離世。在柬埔寨傳統(tǒng)火葬儀式籌備期間，殯葬師與僧侶按習(xí)俗處理后事，卻接連遭遇毛骨悚然的怪事。停尸間的異響、誦經(jīng)時的異常干擾、遺體旁的詭異痕跡不斷出現(xiàn)，亡者的怨念在火葬場蔓延，原本肅穆的超度儀式，逐漸淪為被恐懼吞噬的死亡現(xiàn)場。