When talking about horror literature in Spanish, Carlos Sisi It appears with its prolific dedication to a genre that it endows with its most complete meaning. Because this writer makes fear the narrative argument, nothing to do with the more tangential use of authors as relevant as himself Stephen King that, writing like God, it cannot be said that he sticks to the genre of horrors.
It will be something between the vocational and the generational, but Carlos Sisí connects more with the Max Brooks hell-bent on darkening the world to enter the unfathomable abysses of atavistic terrors. And from there, from the underworld where zombies, vampires and other evil beings coexist, almost all of Sisí's novels are born, making him the master of terror made in Spain.
In some recent article I read a literary critic pointing out, half seriously half jokingly, that there are authors who write about life and it ends up being a fucking horror; while there are others who write about horrors to end up splashing into the deepest meaning of life. This second is what Carlos Sisí does.
Top 3 best novels by Carlos Sisí
Infierno
The closing of a vampire trilogy that re-greens that essence of these beings as the evil entities that they always were, far from recent naive adaptations for adolescents or any other bizarre adaptation.
Because the world of vampires connects with essential aspects between ancestral fears, passions, guilt, life and death drives, madness and dreams. And all this is more than enough to give a good saga of vampires like this one that aftertaste of a work as fantastic as it is transcendent.
Every time the flame of hope emerges, tremulous, the enemy hits it with some new setback with a simple and powerful blow. Stumbling through a devastated America, the few survivors try to survive a growing Storm, facing exhausted increasingly numerous enemies that are already spreading throughout the world.
Alkibiades' plan leaves no loopholes. As the nine Mogs of Tusla Edron grow unstoppably in power, the prospect of tomorrow is extinguished. A last desperate breath leads them to Vanity Villa where they prepare to try to deliver a peremptory blow to the terrible Elexia while a mysterious message obtained in repetitive, restless and suffocating dreams warns them: Hell From Above!
The walkers
In every first feature there is a kind of balance between the passion of the budding writer, the magical imprint that drives us to write, and the craft still to be explored. But in exceptional cases like that of Carlos Sisí, the delivery of his first novel is certainly surprising due to its completion, perhaps due to the wise determination of its almost scripted production. A zombie story to read safely on some cold winter night.
A heartbreaking story that captures the last days of civilization as we know it. Having survived the overwhelming pandemic that brings the dead back to life, survivors are faced with the task of reaching the end of each day.
The novel narrates with a visual and direct language how the destinies of these survivors are woven around a mysterious and macabre character: Father Isidro. Los Caminantes plunges us into an environment of unspeakable psychological pressure, exploring the darkness of the human soul as it faces its worst nightmares.
Pantheon
That Terror, Fantastic and Science Fiction are communicating vessels in the creative sphere, there is no room for doubt. In this foray of Sisí into the hardest science fiction, he won nothing more and nothing less than the Minotaur award.
It's not that space opera is my favorite theme, but in exceptional forays like this one, the matter ends up being endowed with a much closer argument than it seems ...
Earth, the original planet, exploded a little over ten thousand years ago. By then man had already begun his journey through space. In this new Era, war and peace are elements of the same scale that are carefully balanced from La Colonia, the scientific enclave par excellence.
From there, the controller Maralda Tardes detects war activity on a planet far from any commercial route, and decides to initiate a standard inspection protocol.
Meanwhile, Ferdinard and Malhereux, two young scrap dealers, wait patiently in the subsoil of said planet for the war to end on the surface to loot the remains of the combat and extract a succulent profit.
Among the remains of the battle they find a strange artifact that seems to belong to an ancient and unknown civilization and after which they go the heinous sarlab mercenaries and the scientists of La Colonia alike. Little do Mal and Fer know that what they have in their possession could be the key to unleashing a threat older than the galaxy.
