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Soledad Acosta de Samper (1833-1913), a prolific Colombian author of the nineteenth century, has been studied in recent decades in connection with other women writers of the post-independence era in Latin America. Her texts reveal influences of Romanticism and Realism, which have been signaled previously by critics such as Azuvia Licón Villalpando, but they also demonstrate Gothic elements, as researchers such as Felipe Martínez-Pinzón have described (Licón Villalpando 330; Martínez-Pinzón 391).1 Martínez-Pinzón explores components of the Gothic and identity in Acosta de Sampers novel Dolores (1867), but there is much more that could be said of Acosta de Sampers creation of Gothic spaces in her fiction. In this paper, I examine how other narratives by Acosta de Samper in Novelas y cuadros de la vida Sur-Americana (1869), such as the story Un crimen and the short novel Teresa la limeña, reveal divisions between urban and rural spaces and fantasy and reality that demonstrate the authors perceptions of pernicious places.