Brief and terrifying, The Houseguest leaves one feeling that nothing is solid, that reality is a precarious and ever-changing thing, and that it doesn't take much to render the ordinary unrecognizable., Mexico's high priestess of horror. It is easier for these characters to stay silent than to try and explain the shadowy, strange things that stalk them. Often coupled with these very real terrors is the knowledge that their experiences will be doubted. Whether she is writing about a wife whose husband brings home a ravenous and frightening guest, a young woman plagued by a not-completely-unwelcome visitor in the night, or a family held hostage by their possibly monstrous son, the horror is subtle-more is suggested than told. "Filled with nightmarish imagery ("Sometimes I saw hundreds of small eyes fastened to the dripping windowpanes") and creeping dread, Dávila's stories plunge into the nature of fear, proving its force no matter if its origin is physical or psychological, real or imagined.", How is this the first time I am reading Amparo Dávila? And when can I read more from her? In these stories, she creates creates claustrophobic worlds in miniature and populates them with people tormented by things we can't see.
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