Cuentos macabros
10 best books like Cuentos macabros (Edgar Allan Poe): Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen, El llamado de la estirpe, The Devil's Elixirs, The Haunted Hotel & Other Stories, Martín Rivas, Nuestra señora de París: Volumen II, Frida, A Thin Ghost and Others, Las armas secretas, La Morte Amoureuse
Hollywood Gothic: The Tangled Web of Dracula from Novel to Stage to Screen
| Author | David J. Skal |
| ISBN | 0571211585 |
The primal image of the black-caped vampire Dracula has become an indelible fixture of the modern imagination. It's recognition factor rivals, in its own perverse way, the familiarity of Santa Claus. Most of us can recite without prompting the salient characteristics of the vampire: sleeping by...
| Author | Antonio Malpica |
| ISBN | 6078303112 |
Estuve muy muy muy cerca de llorar por razones que no puedo revelar.
Y es que es increíble como mientras mas repasas el increíble viaje que ha tenido Sergio en busca de ese propósito que hasta el mismo desconoce, más te das cuenta de lo mucho que ha crecido como protagonista, y de lo mucho que nos...
| Author | E.T.A. Hoffmann |
| ISBN | 1906210187 |
The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie; but in order to escape the...
| Author | Wilkie Collins |
| ISBN | 1840225335 |
This is a unique collection of strange stories from the cunning pen of Wilkie Collins, author of The Woman in White and The Moonstone. The star attraction is the novella The Haunted Hotel, a clever combination of detective and ghost story set in Venice, a city of grim waterways, dark shadows and death....
| Author | Alberto Blest Gana |
| ISBN | 0195107144 |
Widely acknowledged as the first Chilean novel, Martin Rivas (1862) by Alberto Blest Gana (1830-1920) is at once a passionate love story and an optimistic representation of Chilean nationhood. Written shortly after a decade of civil conflict, it is an indispensable source for understanding politics...
Neste volume ficam decididos os destinos dos protagonistas. Esmeralda tem um final trágico. Febo casa com outro, desiludiu-me, pois ele dizia amar tanto Esmeralda como pode casar-se sem saber do seu destino antes. O soube do seu destino e seguiu em frente... Mas o seu amor fosse realmente forte, não...
Una mirada íntima e introspectiva, excepcional y portentosa, a la personalidad de la genial artista y uno de los principales iconos de la cultura latinoamericana del siglo XX.
Como si fuera un libro de pensamientos, Sébastien Perez alterna sus textos poéticos con extractos de los cuadernos...
| Author | M.R. James |
| ISBN | 1406526924 |
I first read this slim book of ghost tales ten years ago, and, as a great admirer of Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, was initially disappointed in these five tales. I took them for weak imitations of James' earlier triumphs, their potential power dissipated by Dickensian humor, unwelcome digressions,...
| Author | Julio Cortázar |
| ISBN | 8437601193 |
«Τα μυστικά όπλα» είναι τέσσερα διηγήματα που διαπνέονται απο μια συγκλονιστική ασάφεια.
Κάπου ανάμεσα στην αλήθεια και το ψέμα.
Σε ένα όνειρο γλυκό...
| Author | Théophile Gautier |
| ISBN | 1419128914 |
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clarimonde, and this news of her death, in addition to the pain it caused me by reason of its coincidence with the...
El pequeño teatro de Rebecca
So you see I do not only read "fancy" books, this was a book that seemed to follow me for a while. I saw it first months ago, when, because of a project at work, I had to design a small theatre made out of paper or cardboard, and I thought it was interesting I found this in the bookshop. Of course, it was closed,...
| Author | Benjamin Lacombe |
| ISBN | 8426381820 |
Por orden de Rasputín, el científico Alexandr Bogdanovitch viaja al bosque de Broceliande, del que se cuentan muchas leyendas, en busca del elixir de la inmortalidad. En su lugar encuentra un fantástico mundo de seres maravillosos que lo cautivará.
Un libro de gran formato sobre el apasionante...
El color que cayó del cielo
| Author | H.P. Lovecraft |
| ISBN | 9505342071 |
La historia es contada en primera persona por un ingeniero encargado de hacer un estudio para edificar un lago en un remoto paraje, llamado Arkham. Allí encuentra un área de terreno que es distinta a todas y que le causa extrañas sensaciones. Un anciano vecino del lugar le explica que el motivo del...
| Author | David Lozano Garbala |
| ISBN | 8467527218 |
"La muerte no es la peor de las opciones"
¡Madre mía! Han pasado casi 7 años desde que leí este libro por primera vez y entré al mundo de La Puerta Oscura y debo decir que estoy disfrutando muchísimo de esta relectura.
En El Viajero nos encontramos con Pascal, Dominique y Michelle,...
