George Berguño





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George Berguño

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George Berguño is the author of three collections of short stories: The Sons of Ishmael (Ex Occidente Press, 2010), The Exorcist’s Travelogue (Ex Occidente Press in 2011), and The Tainted Earth (Egaeus Press 2012). His stories have appeared in Brittle Star, Dante’s Heart, Babel Fruit, Absent Willow Review, Lacuna Magazine, Dark Tales, and Shadows and Tall Trees; as well as featured in the anthologies Cinnabar’s Gnosis (2009), The Master in Café Morphine (2011), and This Hermetic Legislature (2012).

George Berguño’s narratives blend history, myth and legend with uncanny and supernatural motifs. Typical themes include: friendships between the living and the dead, solitary creatures with infinite longings, random acts that demolish empires, li...more


I am proud to announce the very imminent publication of The Tainted Earth, my third collection of short stories. The collection will be published by the most excellent Egaeus Press in late November, or early December, 2012.

The Tainted Earth features eight stories written in the tradition of European Fantastique, blending history with the uncanny, and the beautiful with the hideous and strange.... Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 4.44 · 64 ratings · 9 reviews · 8 distinct works · Similar authors
The Exorcist's Travelogue
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2011
The Sons of Ishmael
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2010
The Tainted Earth
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2012
Cinnabar's Gnosis
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4.73 of 5 stars 4.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2009
This Hermetic Legislature: ...
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4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 2012
The Master in Café Morphine
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4.57 of 5 stars 4.57 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2011
Shadows & Tall Trees 3
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4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2012
Schutzian Phenomenology and...
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0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2012
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“A few days ago, in Venice, I met a strange little man who thought one can learn to write in the way one learns to brush one’s teeth. Oh, I dare say one can teach grammar; one can teach a person how to construct a good sentence. But literature cannot be taught any more than history. You have to have a feeling for literature – a deep unfaltering love for its infinite gifts.”
George Berguño, The Sons of Ishmael




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