Selección Terror: Macabro deseo

About this issue

This serial publication, Macabro Deseo (Macabre Desire) by Curtis Garland, is a Spanish-language horror story published by Editorial Bruguera in April 1979. The narrative opens with a first-person prologue from a narrator who confesses to a compulsive desire for corpses—specifically beautiful dead women encountered in a morgue. The narrator describes feeling drawn to a deceased famous actress and claims to experience an otherworldly connection with the dead, planning visits to cemeteries to commune with them. The story then shifts to third-person narrative following Jane Peters, a young waitress living in Santa Monica near Bel Air Cemetery in Los Angeles. Disturbed by newspaper accounts of grave robberies and possible necrophilia at the cemetery, Jane becomes fearful during her late-night walk home. Her anxieties about supernatural threats prove premature when three young street thugs attempt to sexually assault her. Police intervention, led by a lieutenant, halts the assault and arrests the attackers.