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Los mejores cuentos de terror sobrenatural
Espacios cerrados y claustrofóbicos, mares tenebrosos, misteriosas tumbas, tétricas alucinaciones, oscuras y peligrosas criptas, cadáveres ensangrentados, amores fúnebres, presión psicológica, descripciones sombrías, marcadas y extrañas enfermedades psíquicas, secretos ocultos, presuntas resurrecciones, detectives analíticos, espectros fantasmales, la muerte, húmedos calabozos, la insoportable ansiedad del hombre... Son algunos de los instrumentos de los que se sirven los autores de la presente selección de cuentos de terror para inspirarnos sentimientos encontrados que nos invaden profundamente mientras leemos sus obras.
Esta cuidada selección se abre con La leyenda de Sleepy Hollo w, una obra maestra de Washington Irving, la increble histor ia del jinete sin cabeza que aterroriza sobre su imponente c aballo a una tranquila y peculiar poblacin agrcola. Tambin e ncontrar a Edgar Allan Poe con su Berenice, El pozo y el pnd ulo y El gato negro, El extrao de H. P. Lovecraft, a Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Antn Chjov, Horacio Quiroga, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry S. Whitehead, Mary Shelley, Guy d e Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Leopoldo Lugones, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Valle-Inclán y Ambrose Bierce. Sin duda, lo mejor de lo mejor dentro del género que nos ocupa.
Esta cuidada selección se abre con La leyenda de Sleepy Hollo w, una obra maestra de Washington Irving, la increble histor ia del jinete sin cabeza que aterroriza sobre su imponente c aballo a una tranquila y peculiar poblacin agrcola. Tambin e ncontrar a Edgar Allan Poe con su Berenice, El pozo y el pnd ulo y El gato negro, El extrao de H. P. Lovecraft, a Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Bram Stoker, Antn Chjov, Horacio Quiroga, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry S. Whitehead, Mary Shelley, Guy d e Maupassant, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walter Scott, Leopoldo Lugones, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Valle-Inclán y Ambrose Bierce. Sin duda, lo mejor de lo mejor dentro del género que nos ocupa.
416 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2014
About the author
Edgar Allan Poe
10.6k books29.6k followersThe name Poe brings to mind images of murderers and madmen, premature burials, and mysterious women who return from the dead. His works have been in print since 1827 and include such literary classics as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, and The Fall of the House of Usher. This versatile writer’s oeuvre includes short stories, poetry, a novel, a textbook, a book of scientific theory, and hundreds of essays and book reviews. He is widely acknowledged as the inventor of the modern detective story and an innovator in the science fiction genre, but he made his living as America’s first great literary critic and theoretician. Poe’s reputation today rests primarily on his tales of terror as well as on his haunting lyric poetry.
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
Just as the bizarre characters in Poe’s stories have captured the public imagination so too has Poe himself. He is seen as a morbid, mysterious figure lurking in the shadows of moonlit cemeteries or crumbling castles. This is the Poe of legend. But much of what we know about Poe is wrong, the product of a biography written by one of his enemies in an attempt to defame the author’s name.
The real Poe was born to traveling actors in Boston on January 19, 1809. Edgar was the second of three children. His other brother William Henry Leonard Poe would also become a poet before his early death, and Poe’s sister Rosalie Poe would grow up to teach penmanship at a Richmond girls’ school. Within three years of Poe’s birth both of his parents had died, and he was taken in by the wealthy tobacco merchant John Allan and his wife Frances Valentine Allan in Richmond, Virginia while Poe’s siblings went to live with other families. Mr. Allan would rear Poe to be a businessman and a Virginia gentleman, but Poe had dreams of being a writer in emulation of his childhood hero the British poet Lord Byron. Early poetic verses found written in a young Poe’s handwriting on the backs of Allan’s ledger sheets reveal how little interest Poe had in the tobacco business.
For more information, please see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_al...
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July 25, 2019
4.5/5
Una antología de cuentos excelente. Se resalta que incluya relatos tanto de los mejores representantes del género (como Lovecraft o Stoker)
Al iniciar con La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow, me dejó un buen sabor de los relatos que se venían. Y fueron excelentes. No logra las 5 estrellas por cuentos que no son tan impresionantes (como el de Arthur Conan Doyle o uno de Leopoldo Lugones) y que se hacen muy pesados.
Destaco la inclusión de El huésped de Drácula de Stoker, El color surgido del espacio, El mortal inmortal, La chimenea y Berenice.
Una antología de cuentos excelente. Se resalta que incluya relatos tanto de los mejores representantes del género (como Lovecraft o Stoker)
Al iniciar con La leyenda de Sleepy Hollow, me dejó un buen sabor de los relatos que se venían. Y fueron excelentes. No logra las 5 estrellas por cuentos que no son tan impresionantes (como el de Arthur Conan Doyle o uno de Leopoldo Lugones) y que se hacen muy pesados.
Destaco la inclusión de El huésped de Drácula de Stoker, El color surgido del espacio, El mortal inmortal, La chimenea y Berenice.
September 6, 2018
Es muy buena la recopilación de relatos de terror que tiene esta antología, descubrí autores que no conocía y me gustaron mucho, si hubieron un par de relatos que no me gustaron mucho. Tiene uno que otro error de impresión pero de igual manera lo recomiendo.
January 6, 2022
Es una antología interesante, la mayoría de relatos son bastante atractivos, excepto por unos cuantos que me dejaron un mal sabor de boca y no cumplieron con mis expectativas; por lo demás, es una gran recopilación que merece dársele una oportunidad.
August 18, 2020
Me encantó! Historias muy variadas. Aunque la mayoría en realidad no me asustaron mucho no vuelvo a leer la última de noche 😂
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