Dientes de sable

In 1756, Giacomo Casanova escapes from prison and flees to Bolzano. He receives an unwelcome visitor: the Duke of Parma, who years before had defeated Casanova in a duel over Francesca. The duke has taken his wife Francesca and intercepted a love letter from her to his old rival. Rather than kill Casanova on the spot, he makes him an offer that is perverse and irresistible.

A collection of articles with personal themes published between 1987 and 2008, along with an interview.

Cuando los padres de Ben le comunican que van a mudarse desde la fabulosa Nueva York al pequeño pueblecito de Elmer’s Grove, en el estado de Oregón, siente como si su vida estuviese llegando a su fin. Impotente ante la negativa de sus padres de quedarse a vivir en la ciudad, se consuela sabiendo que solo deberá soportar durante un año el aburrimiento asegurado que encontrará allí, porque en cuanto termine el instituto piensa volver a Nueva York. Sin embargo, descubrirá que su intuición inicial era equivocada al tropezarse cara a cara con los secretos que se esconden en Elmer’s...

Such readers find allusions in Rice's work to that of Horace Walpole's The Castle of Otranto, to Ann Radcliffe's gothic romances, such as The Mysteries of Udolpho, and to Bram Stoker's Dracula, as do such present-day authors as Clive Barker, Robert R. McCammon, and Stephen King.