The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

A collection of short stories. Selected and translated by Margaret Sayers Peden.

Horacio Quiroga’s short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him. They span many fiction genres — jungle tale, Gothic horror story, psychological study, morality tale — and possess a universality that has made him a classic Latin American writer.

Contents:

• Introduction by George D. Schade
• The Feather Pillow
• Sunstroke
• The Decapitated Chicken
• The Pursued
• A Slap in the Face
• In the Middle of the Night
• Juan Darien
• The Dead Man
• Anaconda
• The Incense Tree Roof
• The Son