The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter

Ambrose Bierce



Santiago Caruso (Illustrations)

«LORD, Savior of my soul, whither hast Thou led me? Here am I in the culprit's tower, a condemned murderer, and tomorrow at sunrise I shall be taken to the gallows and hanged! For whoso slays a fellow being, he shall be slain; that is the law of God and man.»

In 1680, the monastery of Berchtesgaden in the Bavarian Alps was the setting for the ill-fated love between a young Franciscan and the daughter of an executioner. Two centuries later, Ambrose Bierce interpreted the sinister details of the legend giving rise to what would be his only novel. Guilt, terror and destruction are the basis of his tragedy.

The Monk and the Hangman’s Daughter is one of the highest exponents of Gothic literature - and even more so of American. Santiago Caruso’s images depict accurately the intrigue in these pages, lighting up the dark beauty encoded in its pages.

16,5 x 24 cm, 140 pp,Hardback with Jacket
ISBN: 978-84-92412-47-1

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99 Fantastic Fables

Ambrose Bierce



Carlos Nine (illustrations)

«The Grasshopper and the Ant:
One day in winter a hungry Grasshopper applied to an Ant for some of the food which they had stored. “Why,” said the Ant, “did you not store up some food for yourself, instead of singing all the time?” “So I did,” said the Grasshopper; “so I did; but you fellows broke in and carried it all away.”»

In an excellent collection of fables by Ambrose Bierce, politicians with insatiable ambition, unscrupulous doctors, non-religious members of religious orders, waffling poets, unbalanced judges and lunatics of all sorts march beside human-like lions, mice, rabbits and turtles. All this happens under the sharp and precise pen of one of the most brilliant writers of the twentieth century.

99 Fantastic Fables carefully selected and brilliantly illuminated by Carlos Nine, another visionary of the art of illustration.

140 x 210 mm; 112 pp. Hardback
ISBN: 978-84-92412-62-4

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