The main character finds a hole in the apartment wall. It turns out to be a passage to a surrealistic world in which there are terrible creatures. The hero driven by a feeling of guilt, armed with a radio receiver, enters bizarre locations ...
Sounds like a sort of generalized synopsis of canonical "Silent Hills"? And even more so reminiscent of the fourth part - the "room". There is also a concept of "locked" in the apartment of the hero, which finds a hole in the wall and falls into strange places.
But in fact, this is a short work of the Strugatsky brothers - "Tale of Friendship and Annuncia." I came across randomly: I love Strugatsky and respect, but "the story ..." ignored because of the feedback on her the brothers themselves - they called it "an unloved and unwanted child."
According to the plot of a teenager Andrei T. remains at home on New Year's Eve: Parents and brother left celebrate to friends. Andrei fell ill - angina. And in the evening, the day before the NG there is a call: his friend Genka is ready to visit 21 o'clock in order not to leave a sick comrade alone and conspite together. A true friend, yes.
However, time goes, and there is no friend ... Case for 22 o'clock. And now, Andrei's radio began to publish sounds, through which the hero heard the voice of a friend - that called to the rescue. And a mysterious voice: you want to save - the move in the kitchen. And right: next to the refrigerator - a hole. Through which our hero passes. Silentillo sounds? Next similarity a lot:
Surreal scenes: pipes, Vintel. Mysterious strangers ...
In this bizarre world, he finds rusty stairs, parapets, iron floors - all this also reminds us of Silent Hill - only about the first (and third) - locations called "Nowhere".
And the right "satellite" of the hero is a radio receiver. Which begins to issue sounds to the most important points. And the cherry on the cake: the Hero comes to the final, which he dubbed the "pan" to the final. Here, his "judged" a lot of terrible creatures, in which there are human traits - but strongly distorted. For the children's book - quite terribly! In general, like the heroes of CX - Andrei passes a certain psychological test.
Surprisingly, how many coincidences. Or not? After all, this story has not been published almost anywhere. And translated only in the same language - Japanese.