Los relatos de horror deben haber nacido junto al lenguaje mismo, suscitados por el miedo a la noche, la oscuridad, la lluvia y las criaturas de la naturaleza. Son parte de todas las tradiciones folclóricas y satisfacen nuestra curiosidad más atenta y mórbida. De todos esos relatos extraordinarios, de misterio y fascinación ante lo desconocido surgió la literatura de terror, que nutre inextinguible el material del teatro, el cómic y el cine. Hoy ofrecemos a los lectores la mejor selección de relatos de vampiros, fantasmas, zombis y demás seres sobrenaturales, de las plumas más consagradas en la historia de las letras: Drácula, el señor de todos los vampiros, desde su decadente castillo en Transilvania; Carmilla, la vampira mas famosa de la literatura, salida de la imaginación de Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu; El extraño caso del señor Valdemar, de Edgar Allan Poe, y el misterio y horror detrás de El almohadón de plumas de Horacio Quiroga, entre otros.
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George Gordon Byron (invariably known as Lord Byron), later Noel, 6th Baron Byron of Rochdale FRS was a British poet and a leading figure in Romanticism. Amongst Byron's best-known works are the brief poems She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, and So, we'll go no more a roving, in addition to the narrative poems Childe Harold's Pilgrimage and Don Juan. He is regarded as one of the greatest British poets and remains widely read and influential, both in the English-speaking world and beyond. Byron's notabilty rests not only on his writings but also on his life, which featured upper-class living, numerous love affairs, debts, and separation. He was notably described by Lady Caroline Lamb as "mad, bad, and dangerous to know". Byron served as a regional leader of Italy's revolutionary organization, the Carbonari, in its struggle against Austria. He later travelled to fight against the Ottoman Empire in the Greek War of Independence, for which Greeks revere him as a national hero. He died from a fever contracted while in Messolonghi in Greece.
