Hello,
welcome to BBC World Book Club where you get to chat about their books with the world's most interesting authors.
I'm your host Harriet Gilbert and today we're talking about the aptly named Mexican Gothic,
a creepy Gothic horror novel whose heroine must confront perils both human and supernatural in order to rescue her cousin from the clutches of a sinister family.
And joining us from her home in Vancouver to answer your questions about the book is its Mexican-Canadian author Sylvia Moreno-Garcia.
Sylvia, welcome to World Book Club.
Hi, thanks for having me.
Well, it's a real pleasure.
I mean, I've described the novel as creepy, but also I have to say I found it a lot of fun to read.
And I gather it was your mother who got you into Gothic novels, is that right?
It was my mother who got me into horror in general,
but Gothic was one of the very first things I read because she introduced me to Edgar Allan Poe.
Right, okay,
because I just saw you dedicated this novel to your mother and before I knew that she'd had any influence on your writing and reading,
I thought, this is a quite sinister novel to dedicate to your mother.
She liked it.
Well, good.
Well, as well as an avalanche of short stories,
Sylvia has written 11 novels, most recently The Bewitching,
in which she plays with a range of genres from romance to fantasy to crime,