Selección Terror: Depósito de Cadáveres

# "Depósito de cadáveres" by Curtis Garland

This Spanish-language horror tale opens with grotesque description of a corpse in a glass coffin—a decomposed woman in a green dress, her blonde hair intact while the rest of her body festers with maggots and putrefaction. The narrative then shifts to Ilona Vaszary, a patient in Dr. Karl Siodmak's private psychiatric sanatorium in Vienna, called the Black Tower. Ilona suffers recurring nightmares of "the Lady with Bleeding Eyes," a blind woman in black gauze who scratches at her face and demands she join her "kingdom of shadows and blood." After waking from one such nightmare, Ilona encounters the phantom figure apparently made real in her hospital room. She flees in terror through the corridors, collapsing before Dr. Siodmak himself, who finds her claims of the materialized nightmare deeply troubling. The narrative suggests psychological breakdown following a prior trauma—a fire that killed her cousin Sandor—though ambiguity remains about whether supernatural forces genuinely operate within the sanatorium.