Sola en Oriente Medio

No te pierdas los màs terrorìficos cuentos cortos de terror. Para ti o para regalarlo, este libro es perfecto para romper el hielo en la acampada, durante la pijamada o simplemente en algùn momento cualquiera. Contiene màs de 250 cuentos cortos divididos por temas. Lee cuentos de terror en el mar, la escuela, un hospital, el estadio de futbòl, la playa, la fiesta de cumpleaños y en muchos lugares màs.

Set in Victorian England, this book is a disturbing gothic story that will send shivers down your spine. Hardly married for a few months, Elsie has become a widow and is sent to live at her late husband's crumbling estate, The Bridge. Surrounded by resentful servants, Elsie has only her husband's awkward cousin for company. But the new home is no less hostile, as suddenly closed rooms open, and she encounters painted wooden figures that terrify the servants of The Bridge with their restless, following eyes.

"En el otoño de 1978, en un rancho familiar de Goat Mountain, al norte de California, un niño de once años, acompaña a su padre, su abuelo, y un amigo de su padre en la jornada de caza de ciervos que la familiar celebra anualmente. Cada otoño vuelven a este paisaje seco y amarillento salpicado por toda clase de árboles, pero estaeaño será el primero en el que le permitan disparar. Durante la expedición, el padre descubra un cazador furtivo en los alrededores del rancho y decide mostrárselo a su hijo, invitándole a mirar a través de la mirilla del rifle. De pronto, ese simple gesto ...

This novel features the reader as a protagonist. The narrator, a frustrated college professor who happens to be "our friend," addresses the reader constantly ("You, the one holding this book"). Set in the year 2025, the novel immerses the reader in such fictitious worlds as La Rmoras, a town in Baja California that appears in one of Urroz's previous works. The author presents comical anecdotes about Mexican history (Pancho Villa is almost murdered by Japanese cooks), current urban problems that continue in the future (poverty, corruption, and pollution), and the world of academia....