Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

NATIONAL BESTSELLER * From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film--and awakens one woman's hidden powers.

"No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia."--Kiersten White, author of Hide

LOCUS AWARD FINALIST * A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, The Washington Post, Tordotcom, Polygon, CrimeReads, BookPage, Book Riot

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. And she's all but invisible to her best friend, Tristán, a charming if faded soap opera star, though she's been in love with him since childhood.

Then Tristán discovers his new neighbor is the cult horror director Abel Urueta, and the legendary auteur claims he can change their lives--even if his tale of a Nazi occultist imbuing magic into highly volatile silver nitrate stock sounds like sheer fantasy. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. He is cursed.

Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse . . . but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.

As they work together to unravel the mystery of the film and the obscure occultist who once roamed their city, Montserrat and Tristán may find that sorcerers and magic are not only the stuff of movies.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's books include Signal to Noise, which was selected one of the greatest books of the year by BookRiot, Tordotcom, BuzzFeed, io9, and other sites; Certain Dark Things, which was named one of NPR's finest books of the year, a Publishers Weekly top ten, and a VOYA Perfect Ten; The Beautiful Ones, a fantasy of manners; and Prime Meridian, a science fiction novella. She's also edited many anthologies, including She Walks in Shadows (aka Cthulhu's Daughters), which won the World Fantasy Award. She currently resides in the city of Vancouver, British Columbia.

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ISBN 13	9780593355381
Title	Silver Nitrate
Author	Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2024-05-21
Number of pages	368
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.