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La ficción se erige como la respuesta más clara ante los misterios y el terror de la realidadDamián Mirlo, un joven escritor colombiano que viaja a México en busca de oportunidades, y Silvina Padilla, una estudiante mexicana que se va de intercambio academico a Colombia mientras afronta la desaparicion de su mejor amiga, se encuentran en esta ingeniosa trama que navega por las formas en que hemos desarrollado la narrativa latinoamericana de nuestros miedos a traves de la literatura de terror.La pregunta por nuestro espanto y sus raices, el origen de este rasgo que nos limita y define, asi como las verdaderas formas en que se nos presenta el ineludible miedo que nos hace lo que somos, atraviesan las paginas de esta historia y la cotidianidad de sus personajes, que es a su vez la de cada uno de nosotros.

"The Revenge of the prehistoric crabs" is a thrilling horror novel that tells the story of a family that is struck by a terrible plague in a seemingly harmless moment. Mother Janine Kuppers, her daughter Madita and father Andreas live a normal life in Wuppertal. When Madita buys a childrens booklet with a kit for breeding trilobites in a supermarket, they have no idea that they are unleashing a devastating threat. After the crabs hatch from the eggs, they notice that something is wrong with the animals - they are larger, more aggressive and able to survive in the air. Soon the crabs spread throughout the city, killing and eating people. It turns out that the crabs come from a secret research laboratory and were bred to combat overpopulation.

Humor negro e sarcasmo caracterizam o estilo de Ambrose Bierce, mestre da literatura gótica ao lado de Edgar Allan Poe e H.P. Lovecraft. Esta coletânea reúne 21 contos com seus temas favoritos: morte

A las afueras de quién sabe dónde se encuentra un apacible barrio residencial llamado Suburbia. Aparentemente, la vida transcurre monótona y ordenada, pero cada 31 de octubre la oscuridad se cierne sobre este lugar para plagar las calles de historias terrorificas que alimentaran las hogueras de los años sucesivos. Salma acaba de mudarse a una de las casas de la zona oeste y tiene la oportunidad de acudir a la fiesta de Halloween a la que ha sido invitada por sus vecinos y asi, alrededor de una calabaza incandescente, escuchar las historias que esta noche de animas ha traido a este vecindario que podria ser cualquiera.

En "El Ejecutor Eléctrico", un agente ferroviario narra su encuentro con un inventor trastornado, Arthur Feldon, mientras viaja por México. Feldon ha construido un horrible dispositivo eléctrico destinado a purgar el mundo de lo que el considera "individuos no aptos". A medida que el protagonista se ve envuelto en la delirante cruzada de Feldon, la tension aumenta a bordo del tren, hasta desembocar en un impactante enfrentamiento que mezcla ciencia, fanatismo y horror.

Una pieza de arte de Tomás Hijo.Una obsesión se ha apoderado del alma de Robert Blake. Cada día observa, desde la ventana de su estudio, la silueta de la iglesia abandonada que se alza sobre Federal Hill. Cuando finalmente decide atravesar los decadentes barrios que rodean el templo, Blake accedera a un escenario acorde con sus gustos por lo oculto: extraños manuscritos, idolos inquietantes, simbolos blasfemos, un cadaver olvidadoTodos ellos vestigios de un viejo culto dedicado a obscenas deidades cosmicas. En el centro mismo de ese enclave de pesadilla, Blake se encontrara con un artefacto ancestral vinculado a terrores inimaginables que amenazaran con desgarrar su mente y el tejido mismo de la realidad

¡Bienvenidos al inquietante mundo de Edgar Allan Poe!Esta selección de sus cuentos más famosos es perfecta para leer por la noche, frente a la chimenea y con una luz tenue. Si eres valiente y te atreves a desafiar tus miedos, no dejes de leer a Poe. ¡Preparate para una experiencia escalofriante que te mantendra en el borde de tu asiento hasta el final!El cuervo y otros cuentos es una seleccion de los relatos mas emblematicos de Edgar Allan Poe, entre los que se incluyen "El gato negro", "El corazon delator" y "El cuervo".A traves de la narracion detallada de Poe, podras sumergirte en un mundo sombrio y espeluznante que despertara tus mas oscuros miedos. Edgar Allan Poe, maestro de las atmosferas inquietantes, nos confronta con personajes inolvidables que nos que nos tendran en vilo en todo momento. No te pierdas esta seleccion de cuentos donde la locura y el horror se combinan para formar una obra maestra de terror.

In "The Electric Executioner", a railway agent narrates his encounter with a deranged inventor, Arthur Feldon, while traveling through Mexico. Feldon has built a horrifying electrical device intended to purge the world of what he deems "unfit individuals." As the protagonist becomes embroiled in Feldons delusional crusade, tension escalates aboard the train, leading to a shocking confrontation that melds science, fanaticism, and horror.

Em "O Carrasco Elétrico", um agente ferroviário narra seu encontro com um inventor louco, Arthur Feldon, enquanto viajava pelo México. Feldon construiu um dispositivo elétrico horripilante destinado a eliminar do mundo o que ele considera "individuos inadequados". A medida que o protagonista se envolve na cruzada delirante de Feldon, a tenso aumenta a bordo do trem, levando a um confronto chocante que mistura ciencia, fanatismo e horror.

A vengeful ghost. An old secret. A weekend getaway theyll never forget.Julia Kleins life has begun to unravelher daughter Amy has been suspended from school, Julia is about to lose her job, and her boyfriend Garrett is being transferred thousands of miles away. Overwhelmed, she and Amy leave for a weekend at a rambling old colonial inn. Julia never suspects that Garrett, desperate to find a way to keep Julia in his life, has decided to surprise her by joining them. Nor does she expect her daughter to befriend a mischievous ghostor that she herself would be possessed by the malevolent spirit of a long-dead mother.As a dark secret emerges, Julia, Amy, and Garrett find themselves pitted in a fight for survival against a ghostly presence that intends to resurrect/repeat/relive a crime committed two centuries ago. And this time, Amy and Julia will be the victims.

Apresento aos leitores um enredo comovente do início ao fim. A história se passa em uma pequena comunidade pobre onde predominam o medo e a miséria, entre os anos de 2002 a 2010. Esta é a história do menino - fruto de uma gravidez indesejada - que e espancado dia e noite pela me, que o obriga a ficar nos semaforos de transito pedindo dinheiro. Os valores arrecadados so entregues a genitora para que ela possa sustentar seu vicio em drogas. A criança se chama Miguel. Ele tem apenas nove anos de idade, e sua vida se resume a no encontrar sentido nas coisas. As agresses no cessam em momento algum. Com o passar do tempo, os machucados formam uma especie de camuflagem no corpo da criança, que passa a ser observada de perto por pessoas que talvez possam ajudar. Apesar das dificuldades, Miguel acredita no Anjo da Guarda que ve toda noite em seus sonhos, trazendo-lhe um enigma: Ele pode se salvar daquilo a hora que quiser, pode se livrar da tortura no momento em que desejar, basta criar um pouco de coragem. Vencer todos os receios e encontrar a semente da transformaço parece ser a pedreira mais dificil. Mas no impossivel.

The struggle of man against his unseen and silent enemies, the lower or bacterial forms of life, once one becomes alive to it, has an irresistible fascination. More dramatic than any novel, more sombre and terrifying than a battle fought in the dark, would be the intimate picture of the battle of our bodies against the hosts of disease. If we could see with the eye of the microscope and feel and hear with the delicacy of chemical and physical interactions between atoms, the heat and intensity and the savage relentlessness of that battle would blot out all perception of anything but itself. Just as there are sounds we cannot hear, and light we cannot see, so there is a world of small things, living in us and around us, which sways our destiny and carries astray the best laid schemes of our wills and personalities. The gradual development of an awareness, a realization of the power of this world of minute things, has been the index of progress in the bodily well-being of the human race through the centuries marking the rebirth of medicine after the sleep of the Dark Ages.In these days of sanitary measures and successful public health activity, it is becoming more and more difficult for us to realize the terrors of the Black Plagues, the devastation, greater and more frightful than war, which centuries ago swept over Europe and Asia time and again, scarcely leaving enough of the living to bury the dead. Cholera, smallpox, bubonic plague, with terrifying suddenness fell upon a world of ignorance, and each in turn humbled humanity to the dust before its invisible enemies. Even within our own recollection, the germ of influenza, gaining a foothold inside our defenses, took the world by storm, and beginning probably at Hongkong, within the years 1889-90, swept the entire habitable earth, affecting hundreds of thousands of human beings, and leaving a long train of debilitating and even crippling complications.Here and there through the various silent battles between human beings and bacteria there stand out heroic figures, men whose powers of mind and gifts of insight and observation have made them the generals in our fight against the armies of disease. But their gifts would have been wasted had they lacked the one essential aid without which leadership is futile. This is the force of enlightened public opinion, the backing of the every-day man. It is the cooperation of every-day men, acting on the organized knowledge of leaders, which has made possible the virtual extinction of the ancient scourges of smallpox, cholera, and bubonic plague.Just as certain diseases are gradually passing into history through human effort, and the time is already in sight when malaria and yellow fever, the latest objects of attack, will disappear before the campaign of preventive medicine, so there are diseases, some of them ancient, others of more recent recognition, which are gradually being brought into the light of public understanding. Conspicuous among them is a group of three, which, in contrast to the spectacular course of great epidemics, pursue their work of destruction quietly, slowly undermining, in their long-drawn course, the very foundations of human life. Tuberculosis, or consumption, now the best known of the three, may perhaps be called the first of these great plagues, not because it is the oldest or the most wide-spread necessarily, but because it has been the longest known and most widely understood by the world at large. Cancer, still of...

Star Maker, regarded as one of the true classics of science fiction, Star Maker is a poetic and deeply philosophical work. The story details the mental journey of an unnamed narrator who is transported not only to other worlds but also other galaxies and parallel universes, until he eventually becomes part of the "cosmic mind." First published in 1937, Olaf Stapledons descriptions of alien life are a political commentary on human life in the turbulent inter-war years. The book challenges preconceived notions of intelligence and awareness, and ultimately argues for a broadened perspective that would free us from culturally ingrained thought and our inevitable anthropomorphism. This is the first scholarly edition of a book that influenced such writers as C.S. Lewis and Arthur C. Clarke and which Jorge Luis Borges called "a prodigious novel."Some Books of Stapledon:Last and First Men (1930)Sirius: A Fantasy of Love and Discord (1944)Odd John: A Story Between Jest and Earnest (1935)Last Men in London (1932)A Modern Magician (1979)Death into Life (1946)Darkness and the Light (1942)A World of Sound (1936)A Man Divided (1950)The Seed and the Flower (1916)

"La Maldición de Yig" cuenta la espeluznante historia de un hombre llamado Walker Davis que, a principios del siglo XX, se obsesiona con las leyendas de los nativos americanos mientras vive en Oklahoma. Especialmente obsesionado por la historia de Yig, un dios serpiente que se cree que maldice a cualquiera que mate a una serpiente, el miedo de Walker se convierte en paranoia. Llega a estar tan aterrorizado por la supuesta maldicion de Yig que cae en una serie de inquietantes sucesos que lo conducen en espiral hacia la locura, revelando el aterrador poder de la creencia en las maldiciones y el folclore.

"The Curse of Yig" tells the eerie story of a man named Walker Davis, who, in the early 20th century, becomes obsessed with Native American legends while living in Oklahoma. Particularly haunted by the tale of Yig, a snake god believed to curse anyone who kills a snake, Walkers fear grows into paranoia. He becomes so terrified of Yigs supposed curse that he falls into a series of disturbing events that spiral toward madness, revealing the terrifying power of belief in curses and folklore.

"A Maldição de Yig" conta a história sinistra de um homem chamado Walker Davis que, no início do século XX, fica obcecado pelas lendas dos nativos americanos enquanto vive em Oklahoma. Particularment

"Carmilla" is a gothic novel that tells the story of Laura, a young woman who lives isolated with her father in a countryside mansion. One day, a mysterious young woman named Carmilla arrives at their home after an accident. As they get to know each other, Laura feels a growing attraction toward Carmilla, who begins to display strange and unsettling behaviors. The strange occurrences in the mansion seem to be connected to the enigmatic guest.Soon, Laura discovers that Carmilla is a vampire who feeds on her vitality, unleashing a series of terrifying events. Through this chilling tale, J. Sheridan Le Fanu explores themes of desire, passion, and death, creating an atmosphere of horror and mystery. "Carmilla" is one of the earliest works that influenced modern vampire literature.

Este libro recopila, por primera vez, trece de cuentos de la tradición victoriana.Durante la época victoriana se convirtió en tradición para los editores de periódicos y revistas imprimir historias de fantasmas durante la temporada navideña. La idea era que las familias pudieran leerlas en invierno junto a la chimenea o a la luz de las velas. Este libro recopila, por primera vez, trece de estos cuentos, que incluyen una amplia gama de historias de diversos autores, algunos tan conocidos como Conan Doyle, otros anonimos u olvidados.Si tu unica experiencia con las historias navideñas de fantasmas es leer Cuento de Navidad de Dickens, coge una taza humeante, sientate en tu sillon preferido y dejate asombrar.Editado por Tara Moore. Tara Moore celebra la Navidad en el centro de Pensilvania, donde el Belsnickle, con su latigo y vestido de piel caracteristico, sigue aterrorizando a los niños que saben donde encontrarlo. Entre sus publicaciones figuran articulos y libros sobre Navidad, incluidos Victorian Christmas in Print (2009) y Christmas: The Sacred to Santa (2014). Enseña escritura creativa y literatura en el Elizabethtown College.

"Contomorfose: doze começos, doze histórias" desdobra-se como um leque narrativo, tecido por doze mentes literárias, cada qual portadora de uma essência e um olhar inconfundíveis, convergindo em um p

LAS NOVELAS QUE INSPIRARON LA SERIE TRUE BLOOD¿SEDUCIR O SER SEDUCIDO?¿MORDER... O SER MORDIDO?El juicio final se acerca, y Sookie tiene una habilidad especial para atraer los problemas; en particular, cuando es testigo del ataque con bombas incendiarias al Merlottes, el bar donde trabaja. Dado que Sam Merlotte es conocido por su doble naturaleza, las sospechas inmediatamente recaen sobre los cambiantes de la zona.Sookie tiene otra opinion, pero antes de que pueda investigar surge algo aun mas peligroso. El amante de Sookie, Eric Northman, y su niña Pam estan tramando algo en secreto. Sea lo que sea, parecen decididos a mantener a Sookie al margen. Pero ella esta igual de decidida a descubrir que esta ocurriendo. No puede permanecer de brazos cruzados cuando tanto su trabajo como su vida amorosa estan amenazados. Sin embargo, cuanto mas progresa en sus planes, mas consciente es de que la situacion es peor de lo que nunca hubiera podido imaginar.Charlaine Harris ha creado en esta serie unas novelas adictivas, divertidas y que han marcado un antes y un despues en el mundo del romance paranormal. No querras perderte un solo parrafo...La critica ha dicho: Magia, misterio y mucha imaginacion en una historia divertida y un tanto inquietante.Kirkus Reviews