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Selección Terror: El ritual de la sangre

· 1982

Selección Terror: El ritual de la sangre
A Spanish-language pulp horror magazine from Bolsilibros Bruguera featuring Donald Curtis's "El ritual de la sangre" (The Blood Ritual). The cover depicts a terrified woman in a yellow garment confronted by a grotesque vampire figure wielding scissors, set against a red-lit interior. Bold yellow typography announces the story title above the artist's name. Published during the twilight of the pulp magazine era, when cheap paperback anthologies still distributed horror and weird fiction across Latin America. The lurid painted cover exemplifies the tradition of sensational imagery—familiar faces of fear meant to move magazines from newsstands—that direct predecessors to modern comic books inherited and transformed.

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