Parientes pobres del diablo

Here are three stories whose irresistible hypnotic power will leave the reader breathless. A merchant in Africa suffers the effects of a strange curse after staying at a small, seemingly tranquil and comfortable hotel. A young man from a good family decides to dedicate his time and travels to investigating a human caste born for evil. A suspicious old woman, fearful that her family will place her in a nursing home, attributes her disrupted routines and her reunion with old school friends—with whom she relives certain scenes from the past in a very particular way—to a "friendly" fly. These are three deliciously unsettling tales in which, as in the best stories of Henry James, apparitions, ghosts, and dreams speak to us of the innermost recesses of the individual and the inevitable changes to which life leads us.