Mexican Gothic

About Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic (2020) is a Gothic horror novel set in 1950s Mexico, following socialite Noemí Taboada to a crumbling English expatriate family's manor in the Mexican countryside where her cousin is mysteriously ill. What she finds in High Place is a nightmare of colonial violence, fungal horror, and a house with a malevolent will — a deliberate homage to the classic Gothic tradition transplanted to Mexican soil and transformed through the history of colonial exploitation. A #1 bestseller in its debut week and winner of the Locus Award for Best Horror Novel.