Now I see why – “Silver Nitrate” is a very engaging novel, and I couldn’t put it down. Horror is not my literary genre, but I was curious about Silvia Moreno-Garcia, whose books take the publishing world by storm.
Tristán starts seeing his dead girlfriend. Montserrat discovers she has magic powers, uncovered when she starts reading a book by a deceased German occultist. This is the beginning of their involvement in another kind of magic, not an enchanting and beautiful kind but an absolute horror. He can’t wait to introduce himself and Montserrat to the famous Abel Urueta, whose Mexican horror movies became legendary. Then Tristán learns that the old movie director lives in his building.
They are in their forties, and it became harder for Montserrat to face the mounting obstacles at work and for Tristán to get new auditions. They love watching old horror movies together, and they both work in the movie industry: Montserrat is the only woman in sound editing production, and Tristán works as an actor, thanks to his good looks, which have gradually diminished by now because of his age and a car accident. This phrase carries a special meaning for two childhood friends, Montserrat and Tristán. but Montserrat soon notices a dark presence following her, and Tristán begins seeing the ghost of his ex-girlfriend.Īs 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.The magic of the movies. Now the director wants Montserrat and Tristán to help him shoot the missing scene and lift the curse. The magic film was never finished, which is why, Urueta swears, his career vanished overnight. 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. 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. She’s a talented sound editor, but she’s left out of the boys’ club running the film industry in ’90s Mexico City. From the New York Times bestselling 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.
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