Madness and the fantastic-terrifying of the best Spanish heir to Edgar Allan Poe prevail in these tales.

This edition collects the best fantastic tales by the Uruguayan-born and Argentine-adopted writer Horacio Quiroga, in which madness, the fantastic-terrifying prevail, riddled with insane elements and pure and horrifying astonishment. He is the best heir to Edgar Allan Poe in Spanish and the first great contemporary short story writer from Latin America.

His writing is infused with his personal experiences. His life was marked by death, the suicide of family and friends, and a stormy marital relationship. His stay in the jungle as a settler in almost virgin lands, and other vital circumstances, pushed him to write stories, soon becoming one of the most prolific and original authors, in continuous experimentation and with complete creative freedom.

This collection of stories reflects the constant reflective aspect of Horacio Quiroga around the technique of the story, its rhetoric and its theory, especially those that he wrote in the last period of his life and born from his solitary practice, far from environments intellectuals.