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The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

✍ Scribed by Bernardo Esquinca

Book ID
111872331
Publisher
Valancourt Books
Year
2023
Tongue
English
Weight
3 MB
Category
Fiction

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "SeΓ±or Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories and was a finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. Now Valancourt Books is proud to present this collection of fourteen of his best stories, which also features a foreword by award-winning author Mariana Enriquez. In "The Secret Life of Insects", a forensic entomologist tries to solve the inexplicable murder of his wife, who impossibly seems to have been killed in a forest at the same time she was asleep in bed with him. The husband in "The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife" becomes concerned by his wife's strange behavior, which includes sleepwalking, muttering strange phrases, and a bizarre erotic fascination with octopi. In "Come to Me", a woman visits a witch doctor who promises to forge an unbreakable bond between her and the man of her dreams, but things go horribly awry after the man dies. And in the novella "Demoness", four high school...

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