An Abe curiosity popped up. A Lovecraftian collection from 1981. All seemingly by a Spanish writer called Ofelia Dracs.

A homage to one of the most prominent figures in the genre, H.P. Lovecraft … a collection of tales with a Lovecraftian stamp, full of disturbing, mysterious moments and terrifying atmospheres.

Published in Catalan by Edicions 62, at 140 pages. I guess the cover relates to the contents, but perhaps it was also meant to play into the high status of Asimov’s Robots books at that time?

A Spanish blog post from 2013 reveals that ‘Ofelia Dracs’ is now known to have been a pseudonym for a Catalan group of writers, who wrote all the book’s tales in 1981. So it’s effectively a group anthology. It was later issued in Spanish in 1984, and both it and the group seem to be well regarded. The story titles translate as…

E.E. and Mr. Baron.
The Terrifying Testament.
Blood of Blood.
The Revealed Letter.
Cats With Pretty Eyes.
R.I.P. Freewave.
Under the Green Island.
The Invasion.
Euthanasia.
The Neverending Tale.

So it’s not the ‘forgotten Spanish female writer, perhaps writing Dreamlands tales’ that I had at first imagined. Some of the writers are said to be parodists but some made an attempt to adopt the Lovecraft style. They used his mythos and places, and also his atheism — since Catalan avante-garde writers tended to be strongly anti-Catholic at that time. The group seems to have gone on to publish several collections of 1980s erotica, if the Amazon listings are anything to go by. Lovecraft, Lovecraft never seems to have been translated into English.