For the time being, only available in Spanish.
ISBN: 978-84-96870-40-6
Author: David Mateo Escudero
Illustrator: David Martín Rus
Format: Paperback with flaps
112 pages
Size: 14 x 20 cm
Cover: Full colour, gloss coated finish
Black and white interior illustrations
For 14 year olds and over
Darkness is home to those secrets we all want to keep hidden. The remote village of San Pedro, in the Kangucha woodlands, has been isolated ever since Francisco Pizarro seized the New Castille territories from the Emperor Atahualpa. But the lands washed by the river Oxoca have not been freed of a sinister figure that hides amongst the trees, the ghost of a monk armed with a Spanish “guja” who stalks the innocent villagers of San Pedro. Only stammering Tomás, Father Bernal’s assistant, has the key to the mysteries surrounding the ghostly Monk of New Castille.
History and legend hand in hand give life to a traditional mystery novel in the style of such great literary classics as Poe, Lovecraft or Stevenson. Ghosts seek justice, endearing characters play a cryptic game rooted in their very origins. El Susurro del Bosque pays homage to “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow” by the immortal Washington Irving. A book in which a simple walkway separates civilization from the occult.
Available only in Spanish.
