Selección Terror: Han llegado los espectros

Museum Catalog Description *Han llegado los espectros* (The Specters Have Arrived), by Ralph Barby, is a supernatural horror narrative serialized in *Selección Terror* collection #246 (Editorial Bruguera, November 1977). The story opens with protagonist Bianca experiencing a vivid nightmare in which she encounters an invisible barrier preventing her from reaching her fiancé Alfred, who operates a tractor across an unseen field. Pursued by an enigmatic armored horseman wielding an ancient helmet, Bianca is compelled toward a castle-monastery, where she is placed upon a rotating octagonal stone altar as the horseman chants incomprehensible incantations and sets flames around her. Awakening screaming in her shared bedroom with friends Olga and Shirley, Bianca discovers a mysterious puncture wound on her foot—the same injury sustained in her dream. The narrative establishes that Bianca, Alfred, and their companions plan to establish a kibbutz commune. The initial chapters juxtapose psychological realism with supernatural suggestion, implying troubling overlap between Bianca's unconscious and waking reality.