La mansión de los pantanos

Catalog Note *La Mansión de los Pantanos* (The Swamp Mansion) by Ralph Barby is a mystery-adventure tale serialized in Selección Terror, issue 614 (1985). The narrative follows Ivette, a French journalist summoned by Professor Svovoda to remote swampland coordinates. She joins six other international academics—Russian Ionich, Englishman Egan, Italian Giogo, German Ethel, Australian Sheldon, and American Basil Whorf—all former attendees of Svovoda's university course whom they had openly mocked. Piloted by the cynical American Owen Hibbs in a seaplane nicknamed "the Duck," the group flies over alligator-infested Louisiana marshes through darkening skies toward unspecified coordinates. The narrative emphasizes their uncertainty about their destination and Svovoda's intentions, establishing an atmosphere of mystery and foreboding as they prepare to land in the swampland wilderness.