Selección Terror: Ada Coretti

About this issue

Me parece que he muerto (I Seem to Have Died), issue #578 in the Selección Terror collection, is a psychological horror novel by Ada Coretti, published by Editorial Bruguera in 1984. The story opens with an extended nightmare sequence: protagonist Jennifer awakens on a sinking ocean liner, discovering bloody footprints but no bodies. A dark-cloaked man wielding a dagger marked with the letter "M" pursues her. She escapes via lifeboat to an island where she witnesses various horrors—young lovers tortured with honey and giant ants as punishment for violating the island's no-romance rule, and burial pits filled with skeletons arranged in groups of three. The man in black pursues her relentlessly. Jennifer wakes to reveal this recurring nightmare to psychiatrist Lex Cooley; her aunt Nora Potter confirms Jennifer's childhood dreams have historically proven prophetic. Recently orphaned and now wealthy from inheritance, Jennifer fears this nightmare predicts her death. The narrative establishes an atmosphere of psychological dread and supernatural inevitability.