"Nature produces only from time to time, happily, those monsters, whose extraordinary ferocity and criminal inclinations afflict humanity so much that they mess the meditations of the most learned metaphysicians. Will Bristol, born in Handeley, suburb of the county of Deshouvire, in England, is a very painful example: his father, nevertheless, well-known judge of these provinces, and widower shortly after his marriage, had not omitted any diligence for correct the perverse inclinations of that child, his only son: sweet and paternal advice, tender admonitions, exemplary principles, fine and religious education, expensive colleges and universities: in a word, this hapless father spared no means or expense to inspire Bristol with feelings of honor and of sincerity, and tame his natural ferocity; but all efforts of that father were unsuccessful."
A classic story by Agustín Pérez Zaragoza, the father of Spanish gothic stories with some touches that resembles, nowadays, something created by Luis Buñuel, Guillermo del Toro or another surrealist mastermind.