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Darkness and madness are the links that connect the thirteen stories in this book. From the cruelest realities to the most symbolic surrealism, delving into them is to penetrate the shadows of minds fractured by trauma, of conscious psychopathy and schizophrenia, of incurable disorders born of utter despair. A man who bites the head off a live rat, a mother who crawls through the toilet, a plague of cockroaches parasitizing humanity. A girl buried alive near an industrial building, an aging actress playing her last role, a high-class prostitute with metal legs. The ghosts of Cormac McCarthy and Lorrie Moore, Stanislaw Lem and Salman Rushdie, Kurt Vonnegut and Mónica Ojeda wander these pages. And, above all, Kafka. José Luis Pascual draws from them, and their echoes throb in this personal and terrifying exorcism.