In these thirteen wildly evocative and devilishly delicious ghost tales, international author Lozano Gilabert brings us nightmares hatched from our everyday world. A few phrases are enough to populate it, to breathe life into it, and to make it unforgettable. We recognize ourselves in these dreamworlds, they are the ones we shy away from, the ones that inhabit our innermost recesses.
In these stories - ranging from poignant to bone-chilling horror - a premature boy speaks languages he's never learned; a desperate woman is locked in a bathroom with unexpected company, and a man is forced to work where we would never dare enter.
But alongside the horrors of the afterlife, these stories are kindled by characters we can feel compassion for: a man trying to fulfill his wife's desires whatever the cost, a lover with a message that has to be told, the impotence of a child left alone to deal with the unknown.
Within each tale, Lozano Gilabert jumps from the romantic to the sinister, the humorous and the horrific, plunging us into the pain and beauty of a world where we can hear the Voices from the Dead.
Written in a mesmerizing prose that grants poetry to the macabre, this volume is an eloquent expedition into what happens after life - as we know it - ends, and heralds the arrival of a refreshing and indispensable voice in modern fiction.