by Ambrose Bierce · Compañía Europea de Comunicación e Información · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788479693084
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«El guardián del muerto» is the horror short story by Ambrose Bierce, published by Compañía Europea de Comunicación e Información in paperback.
The tale that gives this edition its title begins with a bet: spending the night locked in with a corpse. Bierce builds an unsettling atmosphere in which fear arises both from what is seen and what is sensed, and reserves a surprise for the ending.
Work originally published in 1889; this 1992 edition belongs to the Biblioteca de El Sol collection and consists of 96 pages in Spanish.
For readers of classic horror stories and short American fiction.
Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce was an American author, journalist, and poet. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allan Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that "he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire." His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet.
