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Silvia Moreno-Garcia

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Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the author of several novels, including Mexican Gothic, Gods of Jade and Shadow and The Daughter of Doctor Moreau. She has also edited a number of anthologies, including the World Fantasy Award-winning She Walks in Shadows (a.k.a. Cthulhu's Daughters). Mexican by birth, Canadian by inclination. ...more

Guide to all my works (until now)

I realize I've written a lot of things and between reissues and different editions it can be hard to know what is what. Plus, sometimes people get the impression I've only written horror (no) or I've only written one book (ha!). It gets weird sometimes, like when my friends send me pictures of books like THE BEAUTIFUL ONES in the horror section.

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Published on August 29, 2023 01:10
Average rating: 3.71 · 489,075 ratings · 76,342 reviews · 143 distinct worksSimilar authors
Mexican Gothic

3.68 avg rating — 317,129 ratings — published 2020 — 83 editions
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Gods of Jade and Shadow

3.90 avg rating — 60,200 ratings — published 2019 — 29 editions
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The Daughter of Doctor Moreau

3.59 avg rating — 25,095 ratings — published 2022 — 27 editions
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Velvet Was the Night

3.52 avg rating — 24,122 ratings — published 2021 — 23 editions
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The Beautiful Ones

3.87 avg rating — 17,192 ratings — published 2017 — 21 editions
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Certain Dark Things

3.74 avg rating — 14,071 ratings — published 2016 — 22 editions
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Silver Nitrate

3.72 avg rating — 7,284 ratings — published 2023 — 10 editions
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The Tiger Came to the Mount...

3.86 avg rating — 4,088 ratings — published 2022 — 3 editions
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Signal To Noise

3.75 avg rating — 3,810 ratings — published 2015 — 12 editions
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Untamed Shore

3.80 avg rating — 3,395 ratings — published 2020 — 17 editions
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Set in 1993 in Mexico City, this novel follows a sound editor and a former soap opera star as they stumble onto an occultist who made a curious film decades before. Out 2023.

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“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there's power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Books, moonlight, melodrama.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

“A woman who is not liked is a bitch, and a bitch can hardly do anything: all avenues are closed to her.”
Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Mexican Gothic

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