Edgar Smith

Through This Strange Window Edgar Smith

Few things provoke man the way mystery does. Every unknown pushes us to the search of its truth, its reason, and origin. It is in mystery (this fantastic dimension) where the most interesting fantasies, the most gruesome hypotheses take place. Sometimes we don't have to go too far to enter worlds full of enigmas. Sometimes we just have to look around us, at corners we think we know, at the everyday faces we've taken for granted-which, in truth, keep more than one abomination. It is in the truly common objects (mirrors, books, death) that the most terrible conjectures are conceived; and, without looking for them, we find horror, philosophies, and, just as casually, (we encounter) truth and understanding-too often terrifying. In this book, Edgar Smith, author of critically-acclaimed works such as The Wordsmith, Arrimao, and The Immortality of Crabs, explores with magnificent narrative skill and inexhaustible creativity a series of "everyday" mysteries, which keep the reader, not only immersed in the many fantasies and horrors, but also on the edge of a philosophical cliff, from which they fear falling and never returning.