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Award winning Spanish anti-Franco stories. The Cells of Terror consists of twenty-four stories, all very short, scientifically formulated, about the cells that are the origin of terror--which is to say, about a few of the key situations that sow in the hearts of human beings the monstrous seed of terror. As told by a variety of narrators whose perspective is both unflinching and darkly humorous, these tales encompass the visceral, the metaphysical, and the political in horror. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Translation.

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Award winning Spanish anti-Franco stories. The Cells of Terror consists of twenty-four stories, all very short, scientifically formulated, about the cells that are the origin of terror--which is to say, about a few of the key situations that sow in the hearts of human beings the monstrous seed of terror. As told by a variety of narrators whose perspective is both unflinching and darkly humorous, these tales encompass the visceral, the metaphysical, and the political in horror. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Translation.
Autorenporträt
Alfonso Sastre (1926-2021) was a Spanish author best known as a Generation of '50 playwright, though he also wrote prose, poetry, essays, and screenplays. Sastre is also known for his leftist political activism: his opposition to the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and support of Basque independence.