Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.

Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

¿La vida en la Tierra sólo puede evolucionar, o también mutar en criaturas amenazantes, propias de la prehistoria y el horror? ¿El amor es motivo suficiente para traer a un hombre de regreso de la muerte? ¿Los juguetes infantiles pueden convertirse en mensajeros de furiosas maldiciones? En esta colección de cuentos, Bernardo Esquinca abre interrogantes cuyas respuestas se encuentran al otro lado de los miedos que nos definen como humanos. El temor a lo desconocido; el espanto que late dentro de la cotidianidad; el escalofrío que nos recorre cada vez que vivimos una de estas tétricas historias que, merced a las emociones que despiertan, quizá ya hemos soñado, o quizá se encuentren grabadas desde hace siglos en el inconsciente colectivo. Con un pulso que no duda ni por un instante y un instinto que lo conduce hasta el nervio más sensible de nuestras pesadillas, el autor escribe estas piezas narrativas como quien disecciona un cadáver para adentrarse en su alma y su historia.