St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves

Ten stunning stories, balancing in an astonishing way on the edge between reality and a bizarre phantasmagoria.

Nuns from an orphanage try to “humanize” girls raised by wolves—but not all of them submit to rehabilitation. And those who do yield acquire human vices as well...

An ice palace is the only entertainment in a backwater town. There is an evening show for adults called “Blizzard,” during which people indulge in the most varied, including very dangerous, games...

A whole family makes a living by fighting alligators in a themed park...

An elderly disabled man falls in love with a volunteer...

A girl on an excursion gets stuck inside a giant prehistoric shell while a tide begins to rise...

The brothers search for their sister’s ghost, who drowned in the ocean because of their fault...

Ten dark fairy tales for adults. Ten stories about loneliness and loss, about the thirst for understanding and the search for freedom. Stories that shimmer with all shades of magical realism.