March 27, 2008

The Dunwich Horror

Howard Phillips Lovecraft



Santiago Caruso (illustrations)

«No one, even those who have the facts concerning the recent horror, can say just what is the matter with Dunwich; though old legends speak of unhallowed rites and conclaves of the Indians, amidst which they called forbidden shapes of shadow out of the great rounded hills, and made wild orgiastic prayers that were answered by loud crackings and rumblings from
the ground below.»

The tragic story of Wilbur Watheley and the abominable events that occurred in Dunwich plunge the reader into a world inhabited by monstrous nightmares.

Santiago Caruso’s extraordinary illustrations heighten the intensity of one of the most fascinating stories of H. P. Lovecraft.


Elvio E. Gandolfo (translation)

160 x 240 mm; 86 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-92-4







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Santiago Caruso

Buenos Aires, 1982



At the age of twenty-one he was awarded the First Prize for Drawing at the Salon of Plastic Arts at the Roverano Museum. He has collaborated with various press media in his home country as well as with foreign publishers. His work stands out both for its vigor as well as for its technique. It is no overstatement to say that the work of Carusso, which is well represented in the galleries and museums of Buenos Aires, is currently one of the most pleasant revelations of Latin American plastic arts.

Títulos publicados:
The Dunwich Horror
The Bloody Countess

September 18, 2007

Parisian Tales

Mario Benedetti



Antonio Seguí
(illustrations)

«In the house on Rue Blomet, Madame Benoit greeted us with her usual sharp and distant smile. He held out his hand to her and said in his usual way that he was pleased that Mrs. Méndez [Madame Mandés] had arrived safely. She smiled and stammered out another banal pleasantry inreply. He got her key and they went up to the room.»

The stories in this book talk about exile, love, loneliness, indifference and friendship. They are deep stories, told in a simple way with Paris as their common background. However this is not the Paris that one finds in postcards but rather it is that Paris which marked the life of many generations during the 1960s and 1970s. The main characters are men and women whose way of feeling and thinking moves us and inevitably captivates us.

The illustrations by the great artist Antonio Seguí recreate this raw, poetic and sometimes comical world that beats through in these memorable pages of Mario Benedetti.


160 x 240 mm; 58 pp. Hardback with Jacket | ISBN: 978-84-96509-38-9



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May 23, 2007

Poe

Jordi Sierra i Fabra



Alberto Vázquez (illustrations)

«Some days they were forced to eat bread and molasses. There was nothing else. Maria Clemm did needlework. Virigina was too weak. They often went cold rather than use fuel for the stove; but they could not scrimp on whale oil or petrol for the lamp, because in the dark it was impossible to write.»

In these pages, Edgar Allan Poe’s life is given its human dimension, that of a writer whose genius must struggle against adversity. Scandal, misery, death, madness and, throughout it all, the forging of a sublime body of work, fill the days and nights of a creative visionary, one who was marked by tragedy.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra, winner of the National Prize for Young People’s and Children’s literature, has succeeded in creating a vivid portrait of Poe and his work, which Alberto Vázquez has endowed with extraordinary images.


160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback






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