GOTHIC FICTION
ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-8-4
Softcover, $16.24 170 pages ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-9-1 Hardcover, $23.24 170 pages PURCHASE - AMAZON: www.amazon.com/Vampire-Froyl%C3%A1n-Turcios/dp/B0BVP5SS1Z/ Published February, 2023 |
Froylán Turcios' "El Vampiro" (1910) — here translated into English for the first time as THE VAMPIRE — is one of this Honduran writer's oddest works, a Romantic/Gothic novel with overtones of Decadence (Italian Decadent Gabriele D'Annunzio was a large influence on Turcios). The idyllic life of young Rogerio Mendoza and his beautiful cousin Luz are disrupted not just by a predatory priest, but by a legacy of violence and mysterious death in his family line, even as their home contains a locked room that must never be opened. Those seeking a Honduran version of DRACULA should seek elsewhere, but this intoxicating and beautiful tragedy casts a strange spell all its own. Includes an Afterword by the Translator.
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