De Casas y Misterios

Sforza's tales take place in the intersection of the Gothic and the personal. Old houses in his hometown of Victoria (Entre Rios) are haunted by the spirits of those people who lived and died within their walls, some of whom the narrator knew personally when he was a child, others who are only second-hand stories, shading into urban legends. There's a subtle shading to these spirits, not quite true phantoms, though perhaps not exclusively artifacts of memory. In some ways reminiscent of Mujica Lainez' Aqui Vivieron, De Casas y Misterios tells the story of a place through the people who lived there and the dwellings in the which they lived out those brief lives.