![]() ![]() Filled with nightmarish imagery ("Sometimes I saw hundreds of small eyes fastened to the dripping windowpanes") and creeping dread, D vila's stories plunge into the nature of fear, proving its force no matter if its origin is physical or psychological, real or imagined: "Even if is exaggerating, these things do exist and they have destroyed her, they exist like these flames dancing in the fireplace. At night, Marcela is threateningly visited by the other woman, who resembles a toad. In one of the best stories, "Musique Concr te," a man's longtime friend, Marcela, discovers that her husband is cheating on her. In the title story, a woman's distracted husband brings a mysterious man to their house, and the woman becomes unsettled by his lurking presence. Like those of Kafka, Poe, Leonora Carrington, or Shirley Jackson, Amparo Dávila’s stories are terrifying, mesmerizing, and expertly craftedyou’ll finish each one gasping for air. In "Moses and Gaspar," a man takes in his recently deceased brother's pets and finds his life disintegrating the story is all the more haunting because the reader never knows exactly what creatures the two pets are. The first collection in English of an endlessly surprising, master storyteller. ![]() These 12 stories from D vila are the first of the Mexican author's to be translated into English and show her terrifying knack for letting horror seep into the commonplace and the domestic. ![]()
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