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La caída de la Casa Usher, El escarabajo de oro, Los crímenes de la calle Morgue,El pozo y el péndulo, El cuervo…algunas de las historias más célebres y estremecedoras que haya dado jamás la literatura. Con atmósferas que deslumbran y relatos repletosde misterio y locura, Edgar Allan Poe nos lleva de la mano a crímenes imposibles, obsesiones fatales y encuentros sobrenaturales que desafían la razón. Esta cuidada edición de David Roas, con traducción de Carlos Santos Sáez y posfacio de H. P. Lovecraft, celebra la vigencia del maestro indiscutible del terror y el suspense. Una lectura que sigue fascinando a cada nueva generación.

Dorian Gray posee la juventud perfecta, el rostro de un dios antiguo y un alma aún intacta. Pero al contemplar su retrato ―un lienzo que empieza a reflejar los estragos de sus excesos―, se entrega a una vida de belleza, hedonismo y destrucción. Mientras su imagen permanece inalterable, su conciencia se marchita en secreto, entre fiestas, susurros y crímenes. El tiempo no pasa por su piel, pero deja huellas indelebles en su alma. La única novela de Oscar Wilde, en una nueva y vibrante traducción de José Rafael Hernández Arias y con un posfacio del escritor Jorge Dioni López. Más de un siglo después, El retrato de Dorian Gray sigue interrogando nuestro culto a la imagen, al deseo y a la eterna juventud.

Víctor Frankenstein, un joven científico fascinado por los misterios de la vida, traspasa el umbral de lo prohibido y da forma a una criatura artificial. Pero al contemplar su obra ?un ser descomunal, solitario y ávido de afecto?, la abandona con horror. Rechazada por todos, la criatura recorre el mundo con una mezcla de curiosidad y rabia, aprendiendo a hablar, a pensar? y a odiar hasta la venganza.

Vic Wood has her priorities: scrape by on her restaurant wages, take care of her younger brother Henry, and forget their mother ever existed. But Vic’s careful life crumbles when she discovers that their long-missing mother belonged to the Acheron Order—a secret society of witches tasked with keeping the dead at bay. What’s worse, Henry inherited their mother’s magical abilities while Vic did not, and he has been chosen as the Order’s newest recruit. Determined to keep him safe, Vic accompanies Henry to the isolated woods in upstate New York that host the sprawling and eerie Avalon Castle. When she joins the academy despite lacking powers of her own, she risks not only the Order’s wrath, but also her brother’s. And then there is the imposing, ruthless, and frustrating Xan, the head Sentinel in charge of protecting Avalon. He makes no secret of wanting Vic to leave.

From the art of liars, the monsters came . . . Ever since art gave life to bloodthirsty shadows, creative works have been forbidden and talented creators sacrificed to the Sinless—the immortal royals who feast on human blood in return for their protection. Inana’s secret storytelling nearly got her killed once, and she’ll be damned if she’s ever caught again. With a bounty on her head, she keeps to the city’s dark underbelly, where she earns a meager living from thrill-seeking patrons desperate to hear her illicit fiction. Until Dominic, a Shadowbane, catches one of her performances. Dominic is a half-Sinless monster hunter as fearsome as his prey. But to complete his hunt, he needs an artist to summon the shadows . . . he needs Inana. Dominic delivers an ultimatum: Serve him or he’ll claim her bounty. When survival is all Inana has left, the choice is clear—at least until she can betray him and leave him for dead. As their tense alliance leads them into the heart of danger, dark secrets unravel—about each other, their world, and the threats they face. But the greatest risk of all is the desire growing between them. There’s something more sinful than lust at play, and it could bring the world to its knees.

After being fired for taking an uncharacteristic risk at her commodities trading job, Bea Macon sublets her New York apartment and books a one-way ticket to stay with her mother, Christy, a free spirit who has been living in Salt Lake City on Bea’s dime. Usually the responsible one, Bea isn’t about to admit exactly why she’s suddenly decided to visit, but she isn’t the only one keeping secrets: Christy has a man. She has a map. She has . . . a username on a forum devoted to unearthing $1 million in buried treasure hidden somewhere in the western US? Bea is convinced this is just another one of her mother’s wild larks. But Christy believes she’s onto something—and she’s arranged a rendezvous in a rural town called Mercy with the guy she’s been obsessively trading theories with online to prove it. Out in the desert that one woman believes to be a promised land, the other a wasteland, Bea and Christy find themselves embroiled in a more high-stakes, transformative escapade than either could have imagined.