Strange Stories. E-book. Formato Mobipocket - 9781547598076

The Strange Stories of Eduardo Capistrano are 13 tales of the fantastic, incorporating supernatural elements to tell eccentric narratives of imagination, illusion and dream.
In Horribile Dictu, the incursion of a supernatural investigator into the horror of a family destroyed by the hunger for power of its patriarch. In Umbilical, a psychiatrist tends to an obese patient with a very unusual eating disorder. Strange fortunes befall a man who tried to commit suicide in Paradiso. The Egg, Broken tells the angst of a woman imprisoned in an unhappy relationship, which works a profound transformation.
The Spot is a skin disease of a peculiar nature that afflicts a trash collector. A captive man try to refute the insinuations of his mysterious kidnapper in Captor. In Overprotective, a lonely child meets a great mate for his playtime. A pregnant woman disillusioned with religion as an allegory for the losing of faith, in Apostasy.
All Saint's Day brings a psychiatrist returning to the ruins of the asylum where he was once a nurse, to find it haunted. A man moves to a street filled with strange occurrences in Wyrd. A man finds himself able to produce money out of nothing in the tale Mammon. In Pinus, a boy befriends the monster in the old armoire of his grandfather.
The collection ends with Horses, in which an old man acquires a race horse to keep it from being sacrificed.