Pseudopod 413: Variations Of Figures Upon The Wallby
Silvia Moreno Garcia“Variations Of Figures Upon The Wall” was published in
Where Thy Dark Eye Glances: Queering Edgar Allan Poe, edited by Steve Berman.
SILVIA MORENO-GARCIA is a Mexican writer now living in Canada. Her first collection,
This Strange Way of Dying was released last year. Her debut novel, set in 1980s Mexico City, is called
Signal to Noise and will be published next year by Solaris. Silvia is also an editor. She has recently edited
Fractured: Tales of the Canadian Post-Apocalypse and
Sword and Mythos, an anthology of heroic fantasy and Lovecraftian horror. She blogs at
Silvia Moreno Garcia.com .
Your reader is
Claudia Smith, a video game translator who reads (and narrates) for fun. She was introduced to
Pseudopod by her old university friend,
Helen Keeble, and highly recommends reading her two books,
Fang Girl and
No Angel – especially if, as well as being a fan of the horror genre, you also enjoy a bit of light-hearted teen vampire romance parody.
“The maid slowly buttoned the dress, her hands inching along Rowena’s back. Rowena looked out the sole window in the room – a great sheet of unbroken, tinted Venetian glass – and across the desolate, green fields.
‘What was the Lady Ligeia like?’ Rowena asked.
The maid’s fingers stilled against Rowena’s back.’
‘She was a harsh mistress,’ the girl said.
‘How so?’
But the girl did not reply.”
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