Study on two themes of ertism throughout Horacio Quiroga’s work: vampirism and foot. The abundance of texts on the theme of vampires, to which you can add lycanthropes or Loups-Garous (the first mordent, the others) make it possible to systematically analyse the perspective of what is initially a reason for the horror literature according to modernists (it will then evolve to become, in later texts, an eye-down of film passion) and which seems to us to be a folkloric appendix. Consistent and stable patterns can be seen, for example, of male fear or rejection of sexual relations. The slimming on the foot of several characters connects the two themes. For the study of the second, the foot, we take two new ones: ‘TRES cartas... y un pie’ and ‘un peón’ published in 1918. The fetichism of the boot or bottine in Quiroga is well known, but analysis of the first story shows that it is a metaphor of writing and the latter is part of a complex erotic economy linking men, women and earth and which can be condensed into a pioneer figure (the etymology of which refers to the foot).