Selección Terror: El día de la peste

About this issue

This Spanish-language pulp magazine presents Curtis Garland's El Día de la Peste (The Day of the Plague), set in medieval Germany during early plague outbreaks preceding the Black Death of 1347-1350. The narrative opens in a plague-stricken village under the rule of the tyrannical Lord of Falsborg, who isolates himself in his castle while peasants die en masse. Two young lovers, Ulrich and pregnant Gretchen, tend the sick amid scenes of mass death and communal graves. Ulrich expresses dangerous political sentiments against feudal oppression, while the alchemist Luther Heinz arrives with claims of discovering a plague antidote. Heinz reveals his deception to the couple: he tells the lord his experiments fail, while secretly developing the cure to distribute among commoners rather than reserve for nobility alone. The narrative balances romance, historical backdrop, and emerging class conflict within a horror framework.