El difunto quiere vengarse

Museum Catalog Note This issue of *Selección Terror* (No. 291, September 1978) contains "El Difunto Quiere Vengarse" by Adam Surray—a supernatural revenge narrative. John Joggerst, expelled from his hometown Fieldsville twenty years earlier for impregnating the miller's daughter Kathryn, returns wealthy but terminally ill with cancer. His family had driven Kathryn to her death through cruelty; she died on their doorstep while pregnant. Upon his death, Joggerst's will divides his $2.3 million fortune among surviving family members—his sister Nadine receives the mansion and $1 million; aunt Karla gets $500,000; cousins Elliot and Cynthia split $500,000; servants Mary Ann Taylor and Jerry Coburn each receive $150,000. A mysterious private investigator, Charles Sullivan, appears at the reading. The will stipulates a thirty-day waiting period before distribution, with forfeiture clauses for deaths during that interval. The narrative implies supernatural consequences for Joggerst's vengeful intentions.