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Young Adults

As mans do medo

By Xosé Miranda

About this book

This book gathers some of the best horror short stories by the author. Degeneration and regeneration of the bodies, old Naturalist traditions, the labyrinthine world of occultism, the fish-man… these are some of the topics of these thrilling short stories that that pull the readers in and never let them go.

Book fragment

Let us tell the story, because I know that you are not going to believe it, or maybe we have to tell it to you so that you start believing. And we are going to tell you in writing because we cannot speak. We can write, for sure. Writing is easy for us, it is like a race. Racing through the keyboard and bang! there it goes, the story, there it goes.

Three years ago I bought a house on the beach. This was a particularly inexpensive house, a house I could afford with my salary, just the salary of somebody working in a timber plank and plywood factory. It was in very poor shape but my friends and I spent every weekend for a year repairing it. We did it. We changed the flooring, the doors, the windows, we painted it anew, we changed the pipes and fought the rats. There was a rat invasion in the roof, the garage and they moved between the walls, they walked freely around the garden. But that is not the story I want to tell. What I wanted to tell is that from the very first day I set foot on that house on the beach two things started happening to me. At first I thought they were not related, or rather I thought that they had nothing to do with one another, or rather that they had nothing to do with one another except for the fact that they only happened whenever I was in the house: my left hand started itching, burning, going numb and I started thinking obssessively about changing the place of the cesspool.