The Bloody Countess

Alejandra Pizarnik



Santiago Caruso (illustrations)

«Sitting on her throne, the countess watches people under torture, she listens to their screams. Her ancient, vile servant women are silent figures who bring fire, knives, needles, manacles; who torture young girls, then later bury them. Like the manacles or the knives, these old hags are instruments of possession. This dark ceremony has but a single, silent spectator.»

Accused of murdering six hundred young girls, Erzsebet Bathory is one of the most sinister criminals in history. In her castle in the Carpathians, at the end of the 17th century, the countess crouches over her victims to bleed them to death and steal their youth. Her evil, fascinating legend has survived over the ages.

The Bloody Countess is one of the key works by Alejandra Pizarnik. Its pages are a masterful portrait of sadism and madness, which the prints of the artist Santiago Caruso recreate to the point of perfection.

180 x 265 mm; 88 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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Arthur Gordon Pym

Edgar Allan Poe



Luis Scafati (illustrations)

«Comprising the details of a mutiny and atrocious butchery on board the american brig Grampus, on her way to the south seas, in the month of june, 1827 with an account of the recapture of the vessel by the survivers; their shipwreck and subsequent horrible sufferings from famine; their deliverance by means of the british schooner Jane Guy; the brief cruise of this latter vessel in the antarctic ocean; her capture, and the massacre of her crew among a group of islands in the eighty-fourth parallel of southern latitude; together with the incredible adventures and discoveries still farther south to which that distressing calamity gave rise.»

Luis Scafati’s talented illustrations enlighten the delightful terrors of this novel, which encloses all the obsessions of the brilliant Edgar Allan Poe.

165 x 240 mm; 248 pp. Hardback with Jacket

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