Der mexikanische Fluch

gebundene ausgabe, 416 pages

German language

Published by Limes.

ISBN:
978-3-8090-2747-8
Copied ISBN!

View on OpenLibrary

(9 reviews)

Mexiko, 1950: Ein verstörender Brief führt Noemí in ein gespenstisches Herrenhaus im nebeligen Hochland. Dort lebt ihre frisch vermählte Cousine Catalina, die behauptet, ihr Mann würde sie vergiften. Ohne zu zögern reist Noemí nach High Place, dem Sitz der englischen Familie Doyle, in die Catalina überstürzt eingeheiratet hat. Doch das Ansehen der Doyles ist längst verblasst und ihr Herrenhaus zu einem dunklen Ort geworden. Gut, dass Noemí keine Angst hat – weder vor Howard Doyle, dem widerwärtigen Patriarchen der Familie, noch vor Catalinas eitlem Ehemann Virgil. Aber als Noemí herausfindet, was auf High Place vor sich geht, ist es fast zu spät, um von dort zu entkommen …

16 editions

Gothic horror + biting satire of colonisers

This ended up being the third of 4 stories I read this year that were all variations on the Fall of the House of Usher (including the original), and I think it's my favourite. The slow pace with which the protagonist (and by extension us the readers) learn what exactly is up with the house felt realistic and made for great tension because there's such a long period in which it's clear that something is Very Wrong but not what it is. And along the way Moreno-Garcia gets in some choice digs about what colonisers are and do, including to themselves and each other. Deliciously gruesome.

#SFFBookClub May 2023

Terrifying in an all too real way

This is objectively the better "fungus manipulates people" book, the more literary one, and I love it but I don't see it being a book that I pick up over and over again to read in the way Kingfisher's could be. Perhaps because the real monsters in the story are the people, and they're a very real sort of monster that we're dealing with in the world today.

That said, it is very much worth at least one read, and is an excellent novel filled with suspense and gothic horror.

reviewed Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Una delusione

Content warning Leggeri spoiler sulla trama

Lush and Atmospheric

Mareno-Garcia presents a lush and atmospheric excursion into the gothic genre. Noemí Taboada is a wealthy strong-willed Mexican socialite who finds herself playing the uncanny hero after receiving a bewildering letter from her cousin, Catalina. The letter propels Noemí to travel to her cousin’s new home, High Place – an isolated English-style mansion – to check on Catalina’s mysterious behavior. Noemi is greeted by moldy wallpaper and in-laws bent on eugenics. Her stay at High Place only feels more and more menacing with each passing night as the unimaginable horrors become more and more richly detailed. Recommended for avid horror or suspense readers who just finished and loved “The Death of Jane Larence” by Caitlin Startling or “Tripping Arcadia” by Kit Mayquist for the creepy underpinnings and culturally diverse characters.

avatar for Ark

rated it

avatar for manukall

rated it