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 ...
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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.
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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 ...
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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.