Mr James Conway wants to make money. He wants to build new houses and shops - and he wants to build them on an old graveyard, on the island of Haiti. There is only one old man who still visits the graveyard; and Mr Conway is not afraid of one old man. But the old man has friends - friends in the graveyard, friends who lie dead, under the ground. And when Mr Conway starts to build his houses, he makes the terrible mistake of disturbing the sleep of the dead . . .
Jack London (San Francisco, 1876-Glen Ellen, California, 1916), foi un dos escritores norteamericanos de máis éxito a comezos do século XX. A súa obra literaria, narrada cun estilo directo, foi unha extensión da súa propia existencia aventureira e dos seus pensamentos vitais.
