Esta es una visceral introducción al universo de horror extremo de la leyenda internacional del terror hardcore o splatterpunk Edward Lee: a su poética del gore y a los paletos pueblerinos malvados que pueblan sus relatos. Incluye la traducción (por primera vez en castellano) de Sr. Torso, nominado al Bram Stoker Award en 1994, y Sra. Torso, continuación del primero con sorpresas para los amantes de algunas de sus más conocidas e infernales sagas como Header. Acompaña a estos cuentos un prólogo biográfico de Albert Kadmon (Edward Lee y la sublimación del terror paleto (a.k.a Tete, este es el sendero neorural, ¿me pillas?), un epílogo sobre filmografía de terror paleto a cargo de Sergi G. Oset (Luces, sangre, muñón, ¡acción!: El paleto degenerado como arquetipo idealizado y su incidencia en el cine romántico expresionista de entreguerras) y una nueva entrevista con el autor. Descubre el reino de perversión del redneck Lud, las dudas filosóficas de un teniente de policía o las toneladas de depravación que esconden estas páginas. Ilustración de cubierta a cargo de Ximi.
Author
Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. Edward Lee is an American novelist specializing in the field of horror, and has authored 40 books, more than half of which have been published by mass-market New York paperback companies such as Leisure/Dorchester, Berkley, and Zebra/Kensington. He is a Bram Stoker award nominee for his story "Mr. Torso," and his short stories have appeared in over a dozen mass-market anthologies, including THE BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES OF 2000, Pocket's HOT BLOOD series, and the award-wining 999. Several of his novels have sold translation rights to Germany, Greece, and Romania. He also publishes quite actively in the small-press/limited-edition hardcover market; many of his books in this category have become collector's items. While a number of Lee's projects have been optioned for film, only one has been made, HEADER, which was released on DVD to mixed reviews in June, 2009, by Synapse Films. Lee is particularly known for over-the-top occult concepts and an accelerated treatment of erotic and/or morbid sexual imagery and visceral violence. He was born on May 25, 1957 in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Bowie, Maryland. In the late-70s he served in the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division, in Erlangen, West Germany, then, for a short time, was a municipal police officer in Cottage City, Maryland. Lee also attended the University of Maryland as an English major but quit in his last semester to pursue his dream of being a horror novelist. For over 15 years, he worked as the night manager for a security company in Annapolis, Maryland, while writing in his spare time. In 1997, however, he became a full-time writer, first spending several years in Seattle and then moving to St. Pete Beach, Florida, where he currently resides. Of note, the author cites as his strongest influence horror legend H. P. Lovecraft; in 2007, Lee embarked on what he calls his "Lovecraft kick" and wrote a spate of novels and novellas which tribute Lovecraft and his famous Cthulhu Mythos. Among these projects are THE INNSWICH HORROR, "Trolley No. 1852," HAUNTER OF THE THRESHOLD, GOING MONSTERING, "Pages Torn From A Travel Journal," and "You Are My Everything." Lee promises more Lovecraftian work on the horizon.
