Federico Andahazi

"It is Switzerland, in 1816. Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Shelley's wife Mary and Byron's physician Dr Polidori are ensconced in the Villa Diodati beside Lake Geneva. Polidori is a hanger-on whose presence is merely tolerated. Yet he will stop at nothing to outwit them all. He enters a Faustian pact with an elusive penfriend, Annette Legrand, who is the mysterious third member of the infamous Legrand sisters, the notorious vaudeville act. Annette will produce for him the most compelling vampire tale ever written, which he will read aloud the very night Mary Shelley is to reveal for the first time her tale of Frankenstein. But, in exchange, what can the effete Polidori offer this ghostly female predator, and what is her secret? How real is the insatiable thirst of the sisters for human male fluids? Dream and reality are fantastically blurred for Polidori as he strives to beat the Byron set at their own gothic literary game."--BOOK JACKET.

After testing scores of prostitutes, Mateo Colombo, a 16th century Italian physician, finally discovers the organ governing woman's love--the clitoris. But the publication of his discovery attracts the attention of the Inquisition, Colombo is thrown in jail for heresy and must find a way to clear his name.

En el Monasterio de las Adoratrices de la Sagrada Canasta, un extravagante y lujurioso burdel a las orillas del Rhin, el habitual regocijo ha dejado lugar a un silencio compacto. Zelda, una de las más antiguas y requeridas de las místicas consagradas a la práctica de "los placeres prohibidos", ha sido desollada viva y el terror se ha apoderado de todas sus compañeras. Será uno en una serie de cruentos y misteriosos asesinatos. ¿Cuál es la relación de Johannes Gutenberg con estos crímenes? Recluido en una lóbrega abadía en las afueras de Estrasburgo, Gutenberg experimenta con una máquina y una técnica para reproducir libros. Cuando por fin consigue imprimir los primeros ejemplares, lejos de encontrarse con la gloria, es arrestado por comerciar libros apócrifos y acusado de ser el falsificador y estafador más audaz que recuerde el Sacro Imperio Romano Germánico.