#mexican gothic
Mexican Gothic Aesthetic
He is trying to poison me. You must come for me, Noemí. You have to save me.
When glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada receives a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging to be rescued from a mysterious doom, it’s clear something is desperately amiss. Catalina has always had a flair for the dramatic, but her claims that her husband is poisoning her and her visions of restless ghosts seem remarkable, even for her.
Noemí’s chic gowns and perfect lipstick are more suited to cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing, but she immediately heads to High Place, a remote mansion in the Mexican countryside, determined to discover what is so affecting her cousin.
Tough and smart, she possesses an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.
Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.
And Noemí, mesmerised by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to leave this enigmatic house behind …
REVIEW: Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Mexican Gothic, by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Release Date: June 30th, 2020
Rating:5/5
It’s hard to put into words just how eerie, Weird, and horrifying (in the best ways!) Mexican Gothic was, but I’ll do my best here.
Summary:Mexican Gothic follows Noemí Taboada, who, after receiving a worrisome letter from her cousin, journeys to High Place to come to her rescue. The house is…
I read Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia earlier this year and felt like drawing some art of it!
I’m lowkey excited for the show, but I can’t actually handle horror very well so…we’ll see.
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Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia & What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
WHY:
- Uncanny horror
- Intrepid main characters
- Moldering Gothic manors
Finished The Only Good Indians (Stephen Graham Jones); brutal, but an intriguing and memorable read! Reading it back to back with Mexican Gothic made for an interesting experience, too, in terms of sort of absentmindedly comparing the themes of the cyclical violence of colonialism and the way each book communicates horror. Not feeling articulate enough to properly explain this, but: Mexican Gothic is lush in its depictions and in describing the intense emotional reactions of the protagonist to the strange things she encountered. In this way, mundane things that are not inherently horrifying — mushrooms, houses, wallpaper — are made to seem disturbing. The Only Good Indians, in contrast, has a more minimal writing style, and even gore and violence — horrifying things — are often presented in a very matter-of-fact and emotionally distanced sort of way, as though breaking a person’s jaw open to pull their teeth out were something absolutely mundane.
Not sure I’m making sense here, but I think what I’m trying to posit is: horror in general can often be derived from dissonance, from wrongness, a mismatch between how a thing should be and how it is. Both of these writing styles, while different, are effective in disturbing the reader partly because of the dissonance between what is being described and how it is or is not reflected in the emotion of the characters and narration.
Not sure if other readers of these books would agree or if it would hold up on closer analysis, so forgive me for rambling out half-baked thoughts. Next book up is… Hm. Either Entangled Life or Piranesi, depending on whether I’m feeling fic or nonfic, I guess. We’ll see!
I read Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia earlier this year and felt like drawing some art of it!
I’m lowkey excited for the show, but I can’t actually handle horror very well so…we’ll see.
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books read in 2021:mexican gothic by silvia moreno-garcia
She was the snake biting its tail. She was a dreamer, eternally bound to a nightmare, eyes closed even when her eyes had turned to dust.
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MEXICAN GOTHIC BY SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA — If the three of them were not hysterical, then the three of them had truly come into contact with somethinginside this house. But must it be supernatural? Must it be a curse? A ghost? Could there be a more rational answer? Was she seeing a pattern where there wasn’t any? After all, that’s what human did: look for patterns. She could be weaving three disparate stories into a narrative.
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I read Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia earlier this year and felt like drawing some art of it!
I’m lowkey excited for the show, but I can’t actually handle horror very well so…we’ll see.
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if he’s not a pathetic malnourished wraith of a man mushroom hunting in his family’s graveyard then I don’t want him
