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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. She's all-but-invisible to her best friend Tristán. Then Tristán 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 fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

They are the Beautiful Ones, Loisail's most notable socialites, and this spring is Nina's chance to join their ranks, courtesy of her well connected cousin and his calculating wife. But the Grand Season has just begun and already Nina's debut has gone disastrously awry. She has always struggled to control her telekinesis: the haphazard manifestations of her powers have long made her the subject of gossip - malicious neighbours even call her the Witch of Oldhouse.

Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore, as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children. Three wealthy American tourists arrive for the summer, and Viridiana is magnetized. They offer excitement, and perhaps an escape. When one of them dies, Viridiana lies to protect her friends. Soon enough, someone’s asking questions....

It's an ordinary assignment, nothing more. The cargo? Fifty boxes filled with Transylvanian soil. The route? From Varna to Whitby. The Demeter has made many trips like this. The captain has handled dozens of crews.

Handsome con artist Ulises has long charmed lonely women via letters to steal their money, but money is hard to come by in 1940s Mexico. Ulises knows his looks won't last forever, and he's desperate to get his hands on a real fortune. He thinks he's found it when he captivates his newest correspondent, Perla, the owner of a small-town boardinghouse in picturesque Veracruz. But when he meets her, he finds something he didn't expect. The woman has a niece, Inés, who is as observant as she is desperate to escape her aunt’s household.

Mexico City, 1988. Long before iTunes or MP3s, you said "I love you" with a mixtape. Meche, awkward and fifteen, discovers how to cast spells using music, and with her friends Sebastian and Daniela will piece together their broken families, and even find love.

1950s Hollywood: Every actress wants to play Salome, the star-making role in a big-budget movie about the legendary woman whose story has inspired artists since ancient times. So when the film’s mercurial director casts Vera Larios, an unknown Mexican ingenue, in the lead role, she quickly becomes the talk of the town. Vera also becomes an object of envy for Nancy Hartley, a bit player whose career has stalled, and who will do anything to win the fame she believes she richly deserves.

When nature gets up close and personal, it isn’t always pretty. A fallen tree sparks a poisonous feud between neighbors. A child searches the darkness for the gleam of a tiger’s teeth. A woman holds off a colony of oddly relentless prairie dogs. In unsettling stories that range from horror to magical realism, award-winning authors lay bare the secrets hidden in the land.

Mexico in the 1970s is a dangerous country, even for Maite, a secretary who spends her life seeking the romance found in cheap comic books and ignoring the activists protesting around the city. When her next-door neighbor, the beautiful art student Leonora, disappears under suspicious circumstances, Maite finds herself searching for the missing woman—and journeying deeper into Leonora’s secret life of student radicals and dissidents.

Una fantástica novela inspirada en la cultura maya. La Era del Jazz está en pleno apogeo, pero Casiopea Tun está demasiado ocupada fregando suelos en casa de su rico abuelo como para prestar atención a las nuevas melodías. Sueña, de todos modos, con una vida lejos de su pequeño y polvoriento pueblo en el sur de México. Una vida que pueda calificar de propia.

El regreso de la hechicera es una novela corta donde las joyas y la sangre otorgan poderes fantásticos. Un mundo simbólico que evoca elementos clásicos de la brujería y los poderes mágicos.

A collection of Silvia Moreno-Garcia's short stories, including Prime Meridian and The Return of the Sorcerers or the Diamond Heart.

Welcome to Mexico City, an oasis in a sea of vampires. Domingo, a lonely garbage-collecting street kid, is just trying to survive its heavily policed streets when a jaded vampire on the run swoops into his life. Atl, the descendant of Aztec blood drinkers, is smart, beautiful, and dangerous. Domingo is mesmerized.

Un relato de la autora de Gótico. Amelia sueña con Marte. El Marte de las películas y la imaginación, un bastión interminable de oportunidades para un colono con agallas. Pero está atrapada en Ciudad de México, soportando la monotonía de una metrópolis desagradable, trabajando como "amiga de alquiler", vendiendo su sangre a ancianos con dinero que esperan rejuvenecerse con ella, actuando en una historia de amor rota desde hace tiempo. Y, sin embargo, está Marte, tan lejos y tan cerca. Está segura de que la espera.

Carlota Moreau : jeune femme ayant grandi dans une propriété isolée à l'environnement luxuriant, loin des conflits qui secouent la péninsule du Yucatán. Fille unique d'un chercheur soit génial... soit fou. Montgomery Laughton : marginal, chef d'équipe mélancolique au passé tragique, porté sur la boisson. Aide le docteur Moreau dans ses expériences financées par les Lizalde, propriétaires fortunés de splendides haciendas. Les hybrides : fruit des travaux du docteur, destinés à obéir aveuglément à leur créateur et à rester dans l'ombre.