Universe of books: The terror of Lovecraft and the gothic of Allan Poe, among the best sellers in Lunar Wolf bookstore | Books | Entertainment

On this occasion, Universo de Libros presents the best-selling works by the Lobo Lunar bookstore, located in Plaza las Américas in Quito.

March 21, 2021 – 07h00

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This time Universe of books presents the best-selling works by the bookstore Moon Wolf, located in Plaza las Américas in Quito. The literary top is headed by a particular work called World Comenius (el mundo en pictures; in Spanish) of the philosopher and pedagogue Jan Amos Comenius, known as John Amos Comenius (his name translated into Latin).

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Originally published in Transylvania in 1658, it is considered the first picture book for children that covers the entire universe of its time: God, nature, objects, human beings. It was conceived for the teaching of Latin through graphics. «If something could be perceived by different senses, offer it to all of them […]. Since the senses are the most faithful providers of memory, ”Comenius said at that time.

The list is followed The king in yellow, macabre and terrifying stories of Robert William Chambers, a collection of horror stories that immerses the reader in horror, evil, and the supernatural, in a Parisian setting. This is how the book contains stories such as The mask, In the passage of the dragon, The Reputation Repairman, among others.

Follow him Macabre tales, an illustrated edition with the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, translated into Spanish by Julio Cortazar. The work brings together the classic stories: The Black Cat, The Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, The Fairy Island, among others.

Asian mythology is also present in the top with Illustrated guide to monsters and ghosts of Japan, of Sekien Toriyama; a work that, as its title says, makes a compilation of paranormal characters. An option for lovers of the Gothic novel and mystery.

In the same way, Watchmen, written by Alan Moore e illustrated by Dave Gibbons, make up the list. It is a comic that addresses various topics such as world powers, the cold war and the creation of weapons of mass destruction.

In the mountains of madness, of H. P Lovecraft, that recounts an expedition of the Miskatonic University that allows an important discovery in Antarctica, which would speak about the vestiges of a strange civilization and a secret: its executioners, millions of years later, still survive in the depths of the ice. (I)

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