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Silver Nitrate: a return to horror

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

March 8, 2024 by donttrustthe_bea 2 Comments

mood music: Luzbel – pasaporte al infierno Reminiscent of Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno Garcia returns to her Lovecraftian roots with Silver Nitrate. Set in Mexico during the early 1990s, the reader follows Montserrat (Momo), an audio engineer, and Tristan, a washed-up telenovela actor, whose chance encounter with a golden-era director leads them down a path of occultism and nazi worship. Shortly after moving into his apartment, Tristan meets his new neighbor, cult horror director Abel Urueta, after accidentally receiving his mail and delivering it to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Mystery Tagged With: #horrornovels, mexican gothic, period fiction, silvia moreno-garcia

donttrustthe_bea's CBR16 Review No:9 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Mystery · Tags: #horrornovels, mexican gothic, period fiction, silvia moreno-garcia ·
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A Million Ways to Die in the North

The Terror by Dan Simmons

September 20, 2019 by Bea Pants Leave a Comment

I pulled this book from my mountainous TBR pile shortly after the first season of the television adaption dropped onto Hulu. The second season, which is airing now, is entirely self contained and doesn’t appear to have anything to do with this book or season one. When I opened the my Kindle and saw that it clocked in at well over 900 pages I thought maybe I’d bitten off more than I could chew. I love a good door stopper of a book but almost […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Horror, Suspense Tagged With: #DanSimmons, #horrornovels, #TheTerror

Bea Pants's CBR11 Review No:31 · Genres: Fiction, Horror, Suspense · Tags: #DanSimmons, #horrornovels, #TheTerror ·
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