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Soft cover. Condizione: New. Ed Lindlof (illustratore). Octavo, softcover, new in beige pictorial wraps. 166 pp. Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Author of some 200 pieces of fiction that have been compared to the works of Poe, Kipling, and Jack London, Quiroga experienced a life that surpassed in morbidity and horror many of the inventions of his fevered mind. As a young man, he suffered his father's accidental death and the suicide of his beloved stepfather. As a teenager, he shot and accidentally killed one of his closest friends. Later he lost his wife to suicide. He, himself, committed suicide at the age of 58.