Nuestra señora de las tinieblas

Paperback, 188 pages

Spanish language

Published July 30, 2002 by Pulp.

ISBN:
978-84-95741-19-6
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OCLC Number:
906807109

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3 stars (4 reviews)

Nuestra Señora de las Tinieblas presenta al escritor de terror Franz Westen, de San Francisco. Mientras estudia su amada ciudad con prismáticos desde la ventana de su apartamento, se asombra al ver a una misteriosa figura que lo saluda desde la cima de una colina a dos millas de distancia. Camina hacia Corona Heights y mira hacia atrás a su edificio para descubrir la figura que lo saluda desde la ventana de su apartamento, y para encontrarse atrapado en una maldición que abarca un siglo y que puede haber destruido a Clark Ashton Smith y Jack London.

«Pero la tercera Hermana, que es también la más joven… ¡Cuidado! ¡Susurrad cuando habléis de ella! Su reino no es grande, o de lo contrario no habría nada con vida, pero dentro de ese reino todo el poder es suyo. Su cabeza, enorme como la de Cibeles, se alza más allá del alcance …

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I was pretty excited with this book at the start. I actually managed to plod through seventy-percent of it, then just skimmed through until the end. The facts presented are relevant and interesting but I felt they were few and far in between. The atmosphere is there, the darkness, the little bits of paranoia. Maybe you'd need a lot of Lovecraft background in order to really appreciate this book or something. But all I got from it was lots of interesting tid-bits that did not really cohere into a whole.

There was something unnecessarily overdone with the sentences. Dropping arcane words did not add to the story. At least I know now what gibbous means. It's when the moon is only three-fourths full.

There are not a lot of memorable scenes. All I remember right now is the scene where the main character was in the hill and looking at …