#bernardo esquinca

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Ghosts talking to ghosts.

Bernardo Esquinca, The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories: Volume One; from 'Señor Ligotti', tr. James D. Jenkins

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge

April 11: Books by the window

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13 Days of Halloween: "The Secret Life of Insects" Short Story Review by Bernardo Esquinca

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New Horror 2023 - Day 15

"The family curse that condemned them to be eternal renters."

"Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca (2020)

Real estate horror is some prime and extremely relevant storytelling (also see Dream Home). This one hits in a certain way that ya gotta have the experience to understand.

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"Ahhh! Why did you tell me that?"

"The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

Oh man, this is fun but too short! I need a part 2.

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"You can buy these, but it's on your head."

Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

I loved this. It's unsettling and choices are made that leave you questioning just where the story's going to go, and it's always nice to find something that twists and turns that way. Beyond that, it just lands for anyone who was glad to get the fuck away from childhood horrors.

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Los escritores invisibles

Mi apellido es Puente pero debería ser Pozo, como el de David, el amigo con quien comparto este minúsculo departamento.

-Bernardo Esquinca

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«Latinoamérica desde el territorio de lo extraño». Mariana Enriquez y Bernardo Esquinca. 

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¿Puedes recomendar unos autores de terror latino americanos ?

Órale, ahm, sí, claro, un poquito de lo clásico y un poquito de lo contempo porque todo está increíble.

(Igual topemos que el terror abarca y atraviesa bastantes temáticas y géneros, entonces hay de terror a terror).

Amparo Dávila

Guadalupe Dueñas

Silvina Ocampo

Horacio Quiroga

Juan Rulfo

Bernardo Esquinca

Gustavo Faverón

Mariana Enríquez

Liliana Colanzi

Samanta Schweblin

Mónica Ojeda

Carolina Sanín

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¿Tienes hambre de lectura?

De ser así, ésta semana traigo una novela de ficción del escritor mexicano Bernardo Esquinca. Publicada en 2005.

¡Conócelo y sacía tu hambre de lectura!

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"Espantapájaros" - Bernardo Esquinca

Me parece un texto que hace mucha referencia a las familias tradicionales mexicanas, en las que hay roles de género, los juegos que entre primos se dan, como las escondidas, perseguir los misterios y creer que hay algo "misterioso" en las granjas o pueblos por las leyendas que nos cuentan los mayores, para prevenir que hagamos travesuras.

La lectura me recordó cuando jugaba con mis primos a eso, algunas peleas, pero al momento ya estábamos reconciliados, pude conectar por ese aspecto.

En cuanto a su técnica de escritura es una lectura muy sencilla de comprender.

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No sabemos si perdimos la cordura y, sobre todo, si en verdad deseamos recuperarla.

-en La costa Plutoniana de la noche, de Bernardo Esquinca.

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JOMP Book Photo Challenge

March 12: Bookshelf

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The Valancourt Book of World Horror Stories, Volume 1, edited by James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle, Valancourt Books, 2020. Illustrations by M.S. Corley, info: valancourtbooks.com.

​​What if there were a whole world of great horror fiction out there you didn't know anything about, written by authors in distant lands and in foreign languages, outstanding horror stories you had no access to, written in languages you couldn't read?  For an avid horror fan, what could be more horrifying than that? For this groundbreaking volume, the first of its kind, the editors of Valancourt Books have scoured the world, reading horror stories from dozens of countries in nearly twenty languages, to find some of the best contemporary international horror stories. All the foreign-language stories in this book appear here in English for the first time, while the English-language entries from countries like the Philippines are appearing in print in the U.S. for the first time. The book includes stories by some of the world's preeminent horror authors, many of them not yet known in the English-speaking world.

Contents: Editors’ Foreword – James D. Jenkins and Ryan Cagle Acnowledgments Uironda – Luigi Musolino (Italy) Mater Tenebrarum – Pilar Pedraza (Spain) The Time RemainingAttila Veres (Hungary) The Angle of Horror – Cristina Fernández Cubas (Spain) Down, in Their World – Flavius Ardelean (Romania) The Collector – Tanya Tynjälä (Peru) Señor Ligotti – Bernardo Esquinca (Mexico) The Illogical Investigations of Inspector André Despérine – Michael Roch (Martinique) Menopause – Flore Hazoumé (Ivory Coast) The Bones in Her Eyes – Christien Boomsma (Netherlands) Twin Shadows – Ariane Gélinas (Québec) Backstairs – Anders Fager (Sweden) Pale Toes – Marko Hautala (Finland) Kira – Martin Steyn (South Africa) Donation – Lars Ahn (Denmark) Tiny Women – Solange Rodríguez Pappe (Ecuador) Mechanisms – Elisenda Solsona (Catalonia) The House of Leuk Dawour – Bathie Ngoye Thiam (Senegal) The White Cormorant – Frithjof Spalder (Norway) All the Birds – Yvette Tan (Philippines) Snapshots – Jose María Latorre (Spain) About the Authors

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New Fiction 2023 - October

Another October in the can! And now I wish I could snooze through the real horror that is the holiday season. Maybe I'll stay in October forever... forever... forever...

Here's the long version (since Tumblr blocks too many links in one post).

The TL;DR:

Short Stories

"Snatched from the Brink" by Mary E. Penn (1878)

"The Canal" by Everil Worrell (1927)

"The Lost Performance of the High Priestess of the Temple of Horror" by Carmen Maria Machado (2020)

"The Time Remaining" by Attila Veres & trans. Luca Karafiáth (2019)

"CUE: Change" by Chesya Burke (2011)

"Last Call for the Sons of Shock" by David J. Schow (1994)

"The Real Right Thing" by Henry James (1899)

"The Haunted House" by M.A. Bird (1865)

"The Island of Regrets" by Elizabeth Walter (1965)

"The Stolen Body" by H.G. Wells (1903)

"The White Priest" by Hélène Gingold (1893)

"The Man Who Went Too Far" by E.F. Benson (1912)

"Mater Tenebrarum" by Pilar Pedraza & trans. James D. Jenkins (2000)

"Menopause" by Flore Hazoumé & trans. James D. Jenkins (1994)

"Señor Ligotti" by Bernardo Esquinca & trans. James D. Jenkins (2020)

"Shambleau" by C.L. Moore (1933)

"The Pit and the Pendulum" by Edgar Allan Poe (1850)

"The Village Spectre" by Gianna G. Maniego (2002)

"The Fog Horn" by Ray Bradbury (1951)

"The Lady of the House of Love" by Angela Carter (1979)

"The Woman's Ghost Story" by Algernon Blackwood (1907)

"Black Bargain" by Robert Bloch (1942)

"Vastarien" by Thomas Ligotti (1987)

"The Doll" by Daphne du Maurier (1937)

"The Transferred Ghost" by Frank Stockton (1882)

"The Shadowy Third" by Ellen Glasgow (1923)

"The Daemon Lover" by Shirley Jackson (1949)

"The Interval" by Vincent O'Sullivan (1918)

"The Phantom Cyclist" by Ruth Ainsworth (1971)

"Couching at the Door" by D.K. Broster (1942)

"Bloodchild" by Octavia Butler (1984)

Audio

Tales from the Crypt Presents: Dead Easy by A.L. Katz & Gil Adler, performed by Sean Astin, Jake Busey, Tia Carrere, Brett Cullen, John Kassir (1995, 2022)

Comics

"Birds of a Feather" by Stephanie Phillips, Maan House, Giorgio Spalleta, Justin Birch, Chris Sanchez (2021)

"The Origin of Vampirella" by Budd Lewis & Jose Gonzalez (1981)

"Do You Know... the Beast-Man?" by Richard Howell, Colleen Doran, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

"Good Ol' Fashioned Vanilla" by W. Maxwell Prince, Chris O’Halloran, Martín Morazzo, Good Old Neon (2018)

"For Better or Worse?" by Richard Corben (2016)

"Werewolf!" by Frank Frazetta (1964)

"Chickadee!" by Aya Rothwell (2016)

"The Evil Dead" (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) by Richard Floyd-Walker (1986-1987)

"Famine's Shadow" by Rachel Deering & Christine Larsen (2014)

"A Pretty Place" by Emily Carroll (2023)

"The Thing from the Sea" by Wally Wood & Joe Orlando (1951)

"The Living Ghost" by Frank Belknap Long & Fred Guardineer (1948)

"Essence of Life" by Gail Simone, Tula Lotay, Jared K. Fletcher (2013)

"Hag of the Blood Basket!" by Al Hewetson & Sean Todd (1971)

"The Fisherman" by Franco, Tressina Bowling, Wes Abbott, Sara Richard (2022)

"Dental Plan" by Joy San (2019)

"Frankenstein y el Hombre Lobo" by Unknown (1946)

"Man's World" by Keith Giffen, Mary Sangiovanni, Bilquis Evely, Mat Lopes, Taylor Esposito (2017)

"Shadow of Death" by William M. Gaines, Al Feldstein, Graham Ingels (1953)

"Smoke and Cedar" by Abby Howard & Alina Pete (2016)

"I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" by Harlan Ellison & John Byrne (1994-1995)

"A Dog and His Boy" by Evan Dorkin, Sarah Dyer, Jill Thompson, Jason Arthur (2006)

"The Horror Beneath" by Leah Moore, John Reppion, Timothy Green II, Michelle Madsen, Nate Piekos (2006)

"Shadows on the Tomb" by Joe Certa (1952)

"The Muck Monster" by Bernie Wrightson (1975)

"The Duel of the Monsters" by Archie Goodwin & Angelo Torres (1966)

"The Willowdale Handcar or The Return of the Black Doll" by Edward Gorey (1962)

"Inside You" by Valerie D'Orazio & David James Cole (2014)

"Soylent Teen" by Jordan Morris, Liana Kangas, Ellie Wright, Jack Morelli (2023)

"The Gris-Gris" by Jim Keegan & Ruth Keegan (2004)

"Fair Ground" by Jo Duffy, Mike Manley, Jackson Guice, James Fry, Kevin Cunningham (1992)

Video Games

Haunted House dev. Atari (1982)

Castlevania dev. Konami (1987)

Clock Tower dev. Human Entertainment (1995)

D dev. Warp (1995)

Friday the 13th dev. Atlus (1989)

Silent Hill 3 dev. Konami (2003)

Five Nights at Freddy’s dev. Scott Cawthon (2014)

Movies

It Lives Inside dir. Bishal Dutta (2023)

The Company of Wolves dir. Neil Jordan (1984)

Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare dir. Rachel Talalay (1991)

Honeymoon dir. Leigh Janiak (2014)

Organ dir. Kei Fujiwara (1996)

The Bride of Frankenstein dir. James Whale (1935)

The Royal Hotel dir. Kitty Green (2023)

House of 1000 Corpses dir. Rob Zombie (2003)

The Nun II dir. Michael Chaves (2023)

The Godsend dir. Gabrielle Beaumont (1980)

Hatching dir. Hanna Bergholm (2022)

The Velvet Vampire dir. Stephanie Rothman (1971)

Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter dir. Joseph Zito (1984)

A Haunting in Venice dir. Kenneth Branagh (2023)

Piggy dir. Carlota Pereda (2022)

A Night to Dismember (The Lost Version) dir. Doris Wishman (1979)

The Blob dir. Irvin Yeaworth (1958)

Embrace of the Vampire dir. Anne Goursaud (1995)

Onyx the Fortuitous and the Talisman of Souls dir. Andrew Bowser (2023)

Exposed to Danger dir. Yang Chia-yun (Karen Yang) (1982)

Saw X dir. Kevin Greutert (2023)

The Birds dir. Alfred Hitchcock (1963)

Slumber Party Massacre II dir. Deborah Brock (1987)

Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island dir. Jim Stenstrum (1998)

The Being dir. Jackie Kong (1983)

Kuso dir. Steve (2017)

Visible Secret dir. Ann Hui (2001)

The Exorcist: Believer dir. David Gordon Green (2023)

The Love Witch dir. Anna Biller (2016)

Bones dir. Ernest R. Dickerson (2001)

Bedevil dir. Tracey Moffatt (1993)

Television

Regular Show - "Terror Tales of the Park" I-VI (2011-2016)

The Simpsons - "Treehouse of Horror Presents: Not It" (2022)

Tales from the Cryptkeeper - Seasons 2 & 3 (1994 & 1999)

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El sonido del mar...

Dos noticias: 1. Hoy voy a hablar con mi esposa, tras dos años de no hacerlo; 2. Mi esposa está muerta. Falleció hace dos años, en extrañas circunstancias.

Bernardo Esquinca

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Belleza roja

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El verano ha sido espléndido.

-Bernardo Esquinca