![]() ![]() At night, Marcela is threateningly visited by the other woman, who resembles a toad. In one of the best stories, “Musique Concrète,” a man’s longtime friend, Marcela, discovers that her husband is cheating on her. ![]() In the title story, a woman’s distracted husband brings a mysterious man to their house, and the woman becomes unsettled by his lurking presence. ![]() In “Moses and Gaspar,” a man takes in his recently deceased brother’s pets and finds his life disintegrating the story is all the more haunting because the reader never knows exactly what creatures the two pets are. These 12 stories from Dávila are the first of the Mexican author’s to be translated into English and show her terrifying knack for letting horror seep into the commonplace and the domestic. ![]()
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