AlarconOs OOThe NunOO has been praised as a stark depiction of decadence and decline, Captain Poison as a humorous reversal of The Taming of the Shrew, OOMoors and ChristiansOO as an astute commentary on greed, and OOThe Tall WomanOO as an absorbing tale of the fantastic and supernatural. Together the four works show that AlarconOs imagination in short prose fiction thrived at the middle of his writing career and at the end of it.