Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de
Alarcón, Pedro Antonio de (1833–91),Spanish novelist and supporter of romanticism. Despite the fact that all his literary productions were written while realism and naturalism were en vogue, Alarcón published three volumes of short stories with fantastic features. The third one, Narraciones inverosímiles (Unbelievable Narrations, 1882), contains two stories influenced by E. A. Poe's bloodcurdling narrations: ‘La mujer alta. Cuento de miedo’ (‘The Tall Woman. A Scary Tale’, 1881), and ‘El año en Spitzberg’ (‘The Year Spent in Spitzberg’, 1852). There is also one story based on a popular tale, ‘El amigo de la muerte. Cuento fantástico’ (‘Death's friend. A Fantastic Tale’, 1852), in which a man befriended by Death becomes a renowned doctor capable of predicting the exact time of his patients' demise.
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