Robertson Davies (1913-1995) died a world-famous writer and one of Canada's most important authors. Born in the Ontario region, he was educated in different institutions in his country and Europe. After graduating in Literature at Oxford, he worked as an actor at the Old Vic Repertory Company, where he met his later wife. In 1940 he returned to Canada to successfully dedicate himself to journalism and writing comedies; His humorous column, signed under the pseudonym Samuel Marchbanks, was an immediate success and some of his plays – which he produced himself – were highly acclaimed. At the beginning of the fifties he published the first of his eleven novels, organized in trilogies, which would make him world famous: the Salterton Trilogy: At the mercy of the storm (1951), Yeast of malice (1954) and A mixture of weaknesses (1958). ); the Deptford Trilogy: The Fifth in Discord (1970), Manticore (1972) and The World of Wonders (1975); the Cornish Trilogy: Rebel Angels (1981), What Roots in the Bone (1985) and The Lyre of Orpheus (1988); and the unfinished Toronto Trilogy, to which Murder and Souls in Sorrow (1991) and A Cunning Man (1994) belong. In the sixties he progressively abandoned journalism and began teaching Literature at the University of Toronto, an activity that he combined with writing until his retirement. In addition to novels, Davies published around thirty books of different genres – stories, plays, literary criticism and collections of articles – among which the volume of short stories Holiday Spirit stands out. Ghost Stories (1982), published, like all the previous ones, by Libros del Asteroid.