One story by this author opens with the chilling line "Her honeymoon was one long, cold shudder."
One story by this author opens with the chilling line "Her honeymoon was one long, cold shudder." Margaret Sayers Peden translated a story by this writer in which a group of characters sit on a bench and stare at a brick wall for most of the day. This author wrote his first book Corals after returning from France and founding the Consistory of the Gay Sabre. Jordan slashes the title object of one of this author's stories, and finds a large, swollen animal that had sucked the life out of his wife Alicia. This author wrote a story in which the children of Mazzini and Berta are left mentally challenged after they contracted meningitis in infancy. In that story by him, those four brothers watch as a servant handles the title animal, which inspires them to murder their younger sister. For 10 points, name this author of "The Feather Pillow" and "The Decapitated Chicken," a Uruguayan master of horror.
One story by this author opens with the chilling line "Her honeymoon was one long, cold shudder."
Horacio  Quiroga [or Horacio Silvestre Quiroga Forteza]