SIlver Nitrate

► No one punctures the skin of reality to reveal the lurking, sinister magic beneath better than Silvia Moreno-Garcia. ◄ Kiersten White, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Hide 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. 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. In SIlver Nitrate, Silvia Moreno-Garcia conjures a tale of movie magic and supernatural suspense. ► Movies enchant in more ways than one in this chilling tale of film nerds colliding with occultists. . . . Moreno-Garcia reinvents herself from book to book, which makes each a unique treat. ◄ The Washington Post * This book contains also two excerpts from The Seventh Veil of Salome by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (pages 341-353)