From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a dark thriller about a curse that haunts a legendary lost film - and awakens one woman's hidden powers...
From the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic comes a dark thriller about a curse that haunts a legendary lost film - and awakens one woman's hidden powers...
A breathtaking blend of Mexican horror movies and dark occultism from the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.
Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all but invisible to her best friend Tristan, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she's been in love with him since childhood.'Gripping and unusual' - Guardian Then Tristan discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he has a way to change their lives - even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed. Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristan to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her.As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristan might just find out that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies . . ."Perfection" - Kiersten White, bestselling author of Hide“Beautiful, feral, and as sharp as a jaguar's claws - ANNALEE NEWITZ, award-winning author of Autonomous on THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAUA gothic tour-de-force with characters who will keep you glued to the page - KELLY LINK, award-winning author of Get in Trouble, on THE DAUGHTER OF DOCTOR MOREAUCements Silvia Moreno-Garcia's incredible versatility as an amazing writer who moves between genres effortlessly . Not to be missed ! - S.A. COSBY, Anthony Award-winning author of BLACKTOP WASTELAND and RAZORBLADE TEARS, on VELVET WAS THE NIGHT Stylish and edgy - NEW YORK TIMES on MEXICAN GOTHIC A gothic chiller , set in 1950s Mexico, that will clamp you in its icy embrace and linger like a nightmare - DAILY MAIL on MEXICAN GOTHIC Mexican Gothic terrified and fascinated me. Silvia Moreno-Garcia [is] a genre-jumping wizard , one of the most exciting and necessary authors writing today - CHARLIE JANE ANDERS, award-winning author of The City in the Middle of the Night, on MEXICAN GOTHICMoreno-Garcia is a magician able to switch genres with ease . . . a superb noir thriller - THE OBSERVER on VELVET WAS THE NIGHTSilvia Moreno-Garcia pulls zero punches , bares all the fangs , and goes for every throat in the room with Certain Dark Things - STEPHEN GRAHAM JONES, award-winning author of The Only Good Indians, on CERTAIN DARK THINGS”
Stylish and edgy NEW YORK TIMES on MEXICAN GOTHIC
A gothic chiller, set in 1950s Mexico, that will clamp you in its icy embrace and linger like a nightmare
DAILY MAIL on MEXICAN GOTHICSilvia Moreno-Garcia is the multi-award-winning author of Mexican Gothic (a New York Times bestseller), Gods of Jade and Shadow (one of Time magazine's top 100 fantasy novels of all time), The Beautiful Ones, Certain Dark Things, the noir thrillers Untamed Shore and Velvet was the Night, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silver Nitrate and the forthcoming The Seventh Veil of Salome. She has won the Locus and British Fantasy awards for her work as a novelist, and the World Fantasy Award as an editor. Born and
brought up in Mexico, she now lives in Vancouver, Canada.From the New York Times -bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about a curse that haunts a legendary lost film - and awakens one woman's hidden powers. Montserrat has always been overlooked. She's a talented sound editor, but she's left out of the boys' club running the film industry in '90s Mexico City. And she's all-but-invisible to her best friend Tristan, a charming if faded soap opera star, even though she's been in love with him since childhood.Then Tristan discovers his new neighbour is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he has a way to change their lives - even if his tales of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed. Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristan to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristan begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend . . . As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristan might find out that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies . . .
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