Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: 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, ...
Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and...
Collection of eight short stories in which Quiroga captures the magic of the jungle, which is the scene of exciting adventures illuminated by nature in all its splendor. A place where snakes throw glamorous parties with flamingos, stingrays join forc...
In South America there is a river called the Yabebiri; and it flows through the city of Misiones. In this river there are many rays, a kind of mud fish like the salt-water skate; and the river, indeed, gets its name from them: "Yabebiri" means the "r...
Horacio Quiroga (b. Uruguay 1879; d. Argentina 1937), hailed by many as Latin America's first modern short story writer, was influenced in his early years by the work of Edgar Allan Poe and later governed by journalistic dictates. Quiroga forged his ...