The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

Eerie. Creepy. Dark as no other. Thoroughly disturbing. Beautiful to no end. Quiroga, often called "the Latin American Poe", captures the readers and drags them down to scary depths filled with unsuspected horrors. What a skilled writer this man was! A true literary jewel, and a must-read. If possible, read it in its original language.

Introduction
I read the first few pages, but I didn't want to know too much about each story before I read it. It was sold to me by a book club member to be Poe like. It wasn't.

The Feather Pillow (1907)
So it was a vampire parasite? I feel like we are supposed to know what the creature was, but I don't.

Sunstroke (1908)
Written from a dog's perspective?
Old dog is named Milk and puppy is named Old?
I felt like this one dragged...so mundane. And crappy ending for the dogs.

The Pursued (1908)
This one literally put me to sleep, 2 in the afternoon and I feel asleep reading it. Is the storyteller gay? Is madness a synonym for homosexuality? “But I was completely certain, too, that - an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth - he was going to show more pay for all this evening's pleasures.†Maybe not veiled after all. Then he ends up in an insane asylum? What? My first thought from the first meet, and nothing changed. I think the L guy, luego or whatever was gay too, and his club was a secret meeting spot.
This was a very strange story. I didn't get it at all.

The Decapitated Chicken (1909)
Omg that was awful!!! It was very vivid imagery too.

Drifting (1912)
Snake bite kills him, ok it was a good story of his last hours I suppose. I thought these were supposed to be comparable to Poe? So far only the first one is to me.

A Slap in the Face (1916)
Caña is Rum. Why not call it Rum?
I feel like I'm missing something, like the words were translated, but importance of the stories was not.

In the Middle of the Night (1919)
I actually enjoyed this story. It made sense, and it had a point. The heroism of everyday people.

Juan Darien (1920)
Repay in blood? Oh I get it now, when he is treated badly. This one was ok, it made sense at least.

The Dead Man (1920)
Ok another in the last moments of death story...eh.

Anaconda (1921)
Every time I read this tittle I had “Baby Got Back†running through my head.
Again written from an animal's perspective. The snake social make up left me feeing confused, I didn't follow it so well. It was ok, it seemed really long to me though compared to the other stories in the book.

The Incense Tree Roof (1922)
Another rambling story, did Orgaz kill the inspector? Was the roof a metaphor? Why was so much detail given to its leaking?

The Son (1935)
A parent's constant fear, something has happened to my child! Oh and it did! show less

That shit was decapitated af

En el presente volumen antológico, Horacio Quiroga está en todas las vertientes narrativas que exploró: el relato realista, el cuento para niños, el cuento fantástico, el cuento de amor, la narración terrorífica y el relato de análisis psicológico donde ansiedad y sobresalto se vinculan incluso a hechos reales sublimados, como en El perro rabioso o Historia de un amor turbio.