Selección Terror: El embrujo de Satán

Catalog Note *El Embrujo de Satán* (Satan's Spell) by Burton Hare, published by Editorial Bruguera, Barcelona, 1977. This horror narrative opens on a tropical island setting where an intruder with a hideously decomposed face murders a woman named Gina in her bungalow bathroom using a rusted knife, leaving behind a black mamba snake and a fetish bag containing dog teeth, exotic feathers, human hair, and cadaver skin. Police Sergeant Crazy discovers the corpse lacks a head and fingerprint experts find the bloody handprints left at the scene contain no ridge patterns—suggesting contact from a dead body. The narrative then introduces protagonist Matt Marty, arriving by ship at Black Island in the Caribbean to answer a desperate letter. He encounters a tall, skeletal figure in tattered clothing at the dock playing a primitive wooden instrument, suggesting supernatural or occult elements involving local spiritual practices.