Stories of Love, Madness, and Death

Horacio Quiroga · 1878–1937 · Uruguay

Originally Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (Spanish)

Why it matters

Snakebites, fevers, and casual catastrophe stalk the Argentine rainforest in stories of exacting, Poe-influenced precision. One of Spanish-language fiction's great short-story collections.

At a glance

Tight, plainly told tales in the Poe tradition of mounting, legible dread.