O vilarejo

A sixteenth century priest named Peter Binsfeld matched each of the seven deadly sins to a demon he blamed for it. Raphael Montes borrows that scheme for seven linked stories set in one isolated village. Snow and hunger are already picking the place apart. Each story follows different residents through the sin assigned to them, and a demon named for it.

The stories stand on their own and can be read in any order without losing the thread. Read together, small details carry over from one to the next: a name, a debt, a house that keeps changing hands. By the final story the seven accounts converge on one ending that the earlier ones only half explain.

The book leans into gothic horror rather than shock. Cold weather, closed roads, and neighbors suspecting each other for the village's collapse do the work instead. Marcelo Damm's illustrations run through the text. The whole book is framed as a found manuscript, supposedly translated from a demonologist's own notebook.

It is a short, dense collection built for readers who like their horror slow and connected rather than told in a single unbroken plot.