Silvia Moreno-Garcia's latest novel Mexican Gothic is every bit Mexican and every bit Gothic as the title makes it sound! An old British family with a funky secret living in a very creepy mansion built in the middle of nowhere in Mexico... A rich and young Mexican girl, Noemí Taboada, sent there by her father to check on her cousin Catalina who married into this peculiar family and who, in a letter for help, indicates that someone might be poisoning her... During her stay in this gloomy place, the lighthearted and carefree Noemí experiences increasingly creepy, unsettling and outright invasive illusions/dreams which only solidify Catalina's suspicions. And oh, how right she is. The first half of Mexican Gothic heavily builds up tension that leads to a deeply disgusting turning point (slight spoiler - a secene reminiscent of another very uncomfortable scene from "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre" 1974), from where on the storyline quickly finds a direction, certainly di...