A reimagining of Dracula's voyage to England, filled with Gothic imagery and queer desire. It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews. He dreams familiar dreams: to taste the salt on the skin of his men, to run his hands across their chests. He longs for the warmth of a lover he cannot have, fantasizes about flesh and frenzied embraces. All this he's done before, it's routine, a constant, like the tides. Yet there's something different, something wrong. There are odd nightmares, unsettling omens and fear. For there is something in the air, something in the night, someone stalking the ship. The cult vampire novella by Mexican author José Luis Zárate is available for the first time in English. Translated by David Bowles and with an accompanying essay by noted horror author Poppy Z. Brite, it reveals an unknown corner of Latin American literature.

The Route of Ice and Salt

Literature & Fiction

Zárate, José Luis

United States

Innsmouth Free Press

Una sucesión de microcuentos ilustrados en los que se explora el monstruo bajo la cama en todas sus posibilidades. Monstruos buenos y malos, asustadizos, monstruos que duermen bajo la cama de otros monstruos bajo la cama, monstruos bajo la cuna que no pueden dormir por el llanto del bebé. En compañía de su propio monstruo crece Édgar, y juntos aprenden a nadar, a hacer karate y origami, a contar cuentos y a ver sus propios fantasmas. Un día sus caminos se separan… pero no para siempre. 
 
A series of illustrated micro-stories in which the monster under the bed is explored in all its possibilities. Good and bad monsters, scary, monsters that sleep under the bed of other monsters under the bed, monsters under the crib that cannot sleep because of the crying of the baby. Edgar grows up in the company of his own monster, and together they learn to swim, do karate and origami, tell stories, and see their own ghosts. One day their paths part... but not forever.

Monstruo bajo la cama: solicita niño que asustar (Spanish Edition)

Children's Books

Fernández (BEF), Bernardo

OCEANO TRAVESIA

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