Welcome back again!
This week continues our time with author Mariana Enriquez.
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South American viewers
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Some things that were mentioned…
Mariana runs through an array of references in this episode.
Both Clive Barker and Anne Rice are mentioned when she’s discussing her first novel. The first mention of both of these horror luminaries in the main part* of our series.
Clive Barker is the creator of Pinhead and the cenobites. But if you only know his work from film, do yourself a favor and go back to the source. His early collections of stories, known as the Books of Blood, are horror masterworks. Throughout them, you can feel Barker mixing and matching influences on his work, combining and recombining elements to create his own unique voice and vision.
Anne Rice is, of course, the author the Vampire Chronicles and creator of the second and third most famous vampires in literature, Louis and Lestat. Her work drips with a heightened, gothic sensibility and it is, of course, drenched in blood.
Borges, Cortazar, Lainez, Felisberto Hernandez. Mariana lists a number of the great South American writers here as being authors who work in imaginative traditions (specifically Magical Realism) but whose work does not veer into horror. Mariana has spoken on the topic of literary traditions and the lack of an explicit horror tradition in South American writing.
They’re not horror, as such, but if you’re looking to get transported to another world, or lost in an endless library, or find alternate modes of narrative expression, or just feel a bit of magic in the wind, then definitely check them out.
*In a bit cut from Paul’s episodes, he referenced Barker’s short story “In the Hills, the Cities” as one of the greatest short horror stories ever written. We here at Etch fully undersign that endorsement.
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