From the exhibition
La Muerte afila sus dientes
· 1975

A Spanish-language pulp horror magazine from the Bolsilibros 'Selección Terror' series. The cover presents a woman in a scarlet cloak against a moonlit backdrop of gnarled branches, holding a large blade. The composition—vivid figure against naturalistic horror elements—reflects the aesthetic of 1970s European terror pulps, which inherited the painted-cover tradition of earlier American weird fiction magazines. Bold yellow and red typography announces the title and author Ada Coretti. These slim, affordable volumes were distributed across Spain and Latin America, delivering genre fiction through eye-catching artwork and sensational cover lines to a mass readership seeking adventure and supernatural thrills.
Public domain (copyright not renewed), restored and presented by comicbooks.com public-domain