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Strange Forces: Twelve Stories of the Fantastic & an Essay on Cosmogony
Before Jorge Luis Borges, there was Leopoldo Lugones.
Now, for the first time in English, his foundational masterwork Strange Forces appears in a masterful translation. Explore the laboratory where the rational horrors of the nineteenth century were born, a world where empirical rigor is applied to the paranormal, and scientific inquiry leads not to enlightenment, but to madness. In these tales, you will apocalyptic melody hidden within the mathematics of sound.The terrifying metaphysics of astral projection.The horticultural alchemy required to cultivate a flower that weeps death.The tragic boundary between man and beast, and the terrible cost of crossing it.As Borges himself “If we had to concentrate in one single man the entire course of Argentinian literature…this man would without a doubt be Lugones.”
Bridging the psychological dread of Poe and the cosmic nihilism of Lovecraft, Strange Forces is not merely a collection of tales; it is the blueprint for a new mode of philosophical horror.
Had there been no Lugones, the magic realism of Latin America as we know it would not exist.
Now, for the first time in English, his foundational masterwork Strange Forces appears in a masterful translation. Explore the laboratory where the rational horrors of the nineteenth century were born, a world where empirical rigor is applied to the paranormal, and scientific inquiry leads not to enlightenment, but to madness. In these tales, you will apocalyptic melody hidden within the mathematics of sound.The terrifying metaphysics of astral projection.The horticultural alchemy required to cultivate a flower that weeps death.The tragic boundary between man and beast, and the terrible cost of crossing it.As Borges himself “If we had to concentrate in one single man the entire course of Argentinian literature…this man would without a doubt be Lugones.”
Bridging the psychological dread of Poe and the cosmic nihilism of Lovecraft, Strange Forces is not merely a collection of tales; it is the blueprint for a new mode of philosophical horror.
Had there been no Lugones, the magic realism of Latin America as we know it would not exist.
203 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 11, 2026
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Leopoldo Lugones
264 books71 followersLeopoldo Lugones Argüello (13 June 1874 - 18 February 1938) was an Argentine writer and journalist.
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