Frank Carlson Library

Calaveras County es un lugar imaginario donde las leyes y las normas del mundo convencional han quedado en suspenso, donde lo más insospechado puede suceder. Es el reino de lo mágico y lo desconcertante, un territorio de ensueño donde todo es posible, de la broma macabra al escalofrío profundo, de la risa nerviosa al más puro horror. El escenario ideal para los ocho perturbadores relatos que componen este volumen. Welcome to fabulous Calaveras...

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"Last night a body was found in the woods that appears to be highly decomposed. There were a few items found with the body that may indicate who the victim was. Foul play is suspected, so a murder investigation will take place. Anyone with any information should come forward to the police."I read the article again and again, repeating the words in my head. Josette snatched the paper from my hand so fast I didn't have any time to react. I was startled...

Halloween. Spooky. Creepy. Evil. Take your pick. On this particular Halloween, Reverend Garrett Morgan is determined there's not going to be any funny business in his church's cemetery. Not like in previous years, where the local witches did rites and danced naked among the dead. He's not quite prepared for what's going on this year, and learns it's better to be a bit more, well, open-minded. He needs to work with the local coven, rather than fight...

Curiosity killed the cat, and sometimes we all get a little too curious.What if your curiosity became an itch you couldn't scratch?

Tesoros de la Hispanidad "Basta que dos personas sorban los deleites de la vida de un modo anormal, para que se comprendan tanto más íntimamente." No cabe duda de que Cuentos de amor de locura y de muerte (1917) es la obra más célebre de Horacio Quiroga (1878-1937). Esta distinción no es fortuita porque su lectura nos permite conocer todos los temas del universo quiroguiano en sus entornos más característicos. En cada uno de los 18 relatos...

Your parents are lying bags of dicks, everything you ever had a nightmare about is real, and probably was hiding under your bed. Parallel dimensions exist, let's get that out of the way right now. What matters more is that something is causing them to merge. A process, to put it bluntly, that can only be described as slamming one's tit in the proverbial plane of existence's door… or simply put, maximum unpleasantness in all the wrong places. Monsters,...

It was in a litter-strewn back alley in downtown Chicago that Private Investigator Jack Murphy first saw the poster: "THE SORCERY OF CHUNG-FU, An Evening of Oriental Magic and Mystery." Below the image of Chung-Fu were a series of alarming drawings: a scantily-clad woman shown in mid-scream, strapped to a rack as a pendulum blade swung low; a grinning, hideous, puppet-like thing, its dagger held aloft; a man cowering from two tigers; and, in the bottom...

Los inicios de Stephen King:El escritor de Maine, como lo llaman muchos, estaba predestinado a ser el mejor escritor de terror de la historia. Así lo demuestra su carrea literaria. A pesar de tener que soportar centenares de rechazos de sus primeros relatos y novelas, el destino estaba escrito: el clavo que soportaba las cartas de rechazo cayó finalmente al suelo. Stephen King comenzó a escribir a la temprana edad de ocho años, y publicaría en...

The crew of the harvesting space vessel Skyward Seven, are bound for Dreganon V––a jungle world with a rich, and highly concentrated oxygen atmosphere. As they extract the planet's dense O2 supply, Katelan Driscoll (Astrobiologist/interplanetary botanist) and crew being to discover that this world is more than what they bargained for. Not only is the air thick with an overabundance of pollen and spore that continually clog their collectors., but...