Etiqueta: Supernatural
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The Damna Way (La vía Damna)
Everyone can get in, but no one gets out alive. Chile, 1852. The imminent arrival of a group of mutinous soldiers at BulnesFort has unleashed chaos. They are willing to do anything to find the gold hidden by the Indians. MatthäusKleis, the Fort's doctor, manages to get his daughter Odetta to flee with one of…
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Those who whisper under the ground (Los que susurran bajo la tierra)
When darkness lives inside you, the only escape is to give in to it. Chile, summer of 1979. Raimundo de la Cruz Leyton is eight years old and spends his days with his sister Celeste in the family mansion, better known as “La Casa Roja”. Built at the beginning of the 20th century, it hides…
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The Year the Devil was Born (El año en que nació el demonio)
¿Cómo se distingue el bien del mal? Con una profunda investigación basada en hechos reales y la suficiente dosis de ficción, Roncagliolo nos adentra en la noche más oscura del Virreinato del Perú. Una novicia del convento de Santa Clara da a luz a una terrible criatura de dos cabezas, lengua bífida y ocho extremidades.…
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The gang on wheels (La pandilla sobre ruedas)
Salvando el mundo a toda máquina. Leo y Bea son primos, vecinos y mejores amigos. Los dos comparten su pasión por la velocidad y adoran competir en unas carreras llamadas Bólidos Bárbaros. Leo conduce su kart -auto 7- y Bea una Moto -Moto 10- Pero como ambos vehículos son de muy mala calidad, nunca…
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Saga Detective Malasuerte
El detective que Tijuana necesita, pero que no quiere. Tomás Peralta es un detective pelirrojo de voz aguardientosa. No es guapo como los personajes de True Detective, ni tan listo como Sherlock Homes o elegante como Sam Spade. Se define a sí mismo como “feo, pero de buen cuerpo”. Nació un martes 13, día…
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La visitante
¿Quién te mantiene despierto? En el convulso México de 1972: Gabriela, estudiante de Contaduría en la UNAM, se ha mudado recientemente con su prima (y mejor amiga) Marisol, una estudiante de Teatro. Atraída por la curiosidad que siente por el círculo de su prima -grupo de artistas liberales que representan a la…
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The Orchard Series (Saga La huerta)
True horror is not knowing who to trust. The architect Roberto Benavídez and his family move to “the Orchad”, a house in the countryside, in provincial Mexico. There, Lorena, his wife; Patricia, his oldest kid; and Carlitos, his youngest, start a new life far away from the capital. What they don’t know is that…
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The Church (La iglesia)
Is there an evil that is older and more powerful than God Himself? Ernesto Larraz is a Spanish priest who has been teaching at a high school for years. But after a controversial case of assaulting a minor, he is removed from teaching and sent to Ceuta. There, the diocese assigns him the task…
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Pérák
Czech Republic’s first superheroe. Myth or truth? Perak had springs on his legs with which he could even jump streets. With supernatural abilities he became an urban legend everyone knew about and all, eventually, doubted if maybe, only maybe, he was real. Even the Germans feared him. In his prose, Petr Stancík takes this…
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This Emptiness that Boils (Este vacío que hierve)
Secrets are hidden underground. The story takes place in 2030, Karina is a twenty-five-year-old physicist who is currently working on a new theory of universal gravitation. She lives in the south of Mexico City with her grandmother Rebeca. One night, her grandmother, while drunk, mistakes Karina for a ghost from her past, and reveals…
