Joven dramaturgia Vol. 2

La historia del 'jinete sin cabeza' ha adquirido gran fama en la cultura popular. Sin embargo, de la imaginación de Washington Irving salieron muchas más historias macabras que hemos reunido en este compendio. Este autor norteamericano, uno de los primeros en su país en ser reconocido por las comunidades literarias europeas, fue una influencia importante para Edgar Allan Poe, y en sus relatos nos narra las historias no solo de jinetes descabezados, sino de hombres suspendidos en el tiempo, e historias de espectros y vampiros que inspiraron a muchos autores posteriores.

Perfecta: the Game is straightforward. The Game is played by the best professional killers in the business. The rules: Ten names go on a list. Place a bet of one million dollars. Pick the exact order in which the victims will be killed. Collect the pot.Perfecta: the town no longer exists. A church and a bar are all that remain of what was once Perfecta, Texas. Two brothers and one renegade live there, divided, as dissimilar as the two building left standing. Eugene Green, a would-be preacher, attempts to uphold the unattainable family legacy. His twin Gordon, just wants to drink his problems...

Lucas Corso is a bibliophilic mercenary in the middle to two searches. He needs to prove if a manuscript of The Three Musketeers is genuine. He must also find the solution to the enigma of a diabolic book, burned with the printer in 1667, and of which only two other copies are known. The mystery leads him from the Holy Office to books condemned by the Vatican, from dusty old bookstores to the most select libraries owned by important international collectors.

Durante más de cincuenta años Winnie y Helen ocultaron sus peores secretos. Pero, cuando Helen está a punto de morir, Winnie decide contarle todo a su hija Pearl, incluso la terrible verdad que ignora la propia Helen. Así despega esta fabulosa historia que nos conduce desde Shanghai en los años veinte, a través de una China envuelta en guerras, hasta Estados Unidos, adonde llega Winnie en 1949.