Edgar Allan Poe / Tim Zengerink
Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
What if the face you cherish most became the very image that haunts your sanity?In a decaying mansion veiled by mist, scholar-invalid Egaeus drifts through feverish hallucinations while the world beyond his study window rots under time’s indifferent hand. When his lively cousin Berenice returns-graceful, vivacious, yet doomed by a wasting illness-her brilliant teeth mesmerize him, igniting a morbid obsession that gnaws at his mind like rats in a grave.As illness reduces her to a ghost of herself, Egaeus’s fixation sharpens into a single, horrifying purpose... and one moon-washed night, the mausoleum doors swing open.Edgar Allan Poe’s tale of psychological terror and gothic decadence still unsettles after 180 years. This modern presentation retains Poe’s sumptuous prose while clarifying archaic turns of phrase, ensuring that every reader can savor-and shudder at-its sinister elegance.What You’ll Discover in This Modern Edition:A Portrait of Pathological Obsession - Witness the slow corrosion of a brilliant mind devoured by a single macabre thought.Gothic Atmosphere at Its Finest - Crumbling corridors, funeral fog, and the relentless tick of mortality saturate every page.Sharp, Accessible Text - Faithful to Poe’s voice yet delicately updated for twenty-first-century clarity.Themes of Beauty and Decay - Explore how perfection can inspire both reverence and ruin.An Origin of Modern Horror Tropes - See why dentists, collectors, and true-crime aficionados still whisper Berenice’s name.If you revel in dark romance, psychological thrillers, or the lyrical dread of Poe himself, Berenice will grip you by the roots of your nerves-and refuse to let go.
