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Orácio Quiroga (Uruguay, 1878-1937) is a storyteller and whimsical writer whose novels about the dark sides of the human psyche, fatal natural forces, are imbued with dark fantasy.

Numerous collections of short stories have come from his pen: «Tales of the Selva», «Desert», «Anaconda», «Alien Crime». However, the most famous book of short stories by the Uruguayan Edgar Poe is Tales of Love, Madness and Death (1917).

Disappointment, sorrow and death, love, courage and dignity are the themes of this collection, which was compiled by the author himself, creating a peculiar creative style in which fantastic elements are combined with harsh realism. Unfortunately, these so-called "scary" stories by Kiroga are little known to our readers. Universally recognised masterpieces of the author, the stories "Pillow of Feathers", "Slaughtered Chicken", "Downstream" really frighten the reader: although laconic, they are written with incredible inner expression and barely lift the barrier behind which the inexorability of the mysterious forces of nature, madness, and death is hidden. Other "urban" stories in this collection are "The Time of Love", "The Solitaire", "The Death of Isolde", "Brain Fever and Its Shadow".

The second group of scary stories are «selva stories». They can be called scary only conditionally, but anxiety is always present here: The hordes of killer ants that devour everything in their path (Wild Honey), the constant struggle for survival in the selva of both people (Log Catchers, Sunstroke) and animals (Yagwai, Barbed Wire).