High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Rafael Llopis Paret (born Madrid, April 17, 1933), Spanish psychiatrist, essayist and translator, specializing in fantasy and horror fiction. He studied medicine at the Universidad Complutense of Madrid. As a psychiatrist, worked in various health centers in the Comunidad de Madrid until his retirement, in 1998. Since his high school years he was interested in fantasy, that in the absence of publications in Castilian read fluently in French. With the English of the high school and a dictionary began to read Sheridan Le Fanu, one of the authors of his choice, and other writers of fantastic literature not available in French. He is considered, along with the translator Francisco Torres Oliver, one of the best introducers of the genre of mystery and macabre in Spanish.