The lady number thirteen, by José Carlos Somoza

Fear, as an argument for the fantastic, offers a vast terrain by which to surprise the reader, a space where you can overwhelm him at your whim and make him feel those chills that uncertainty causes. If the story also runs on the account of Jose Carlos Somoza, you can be sure that this scenery will make you participate as if you were right there, as if your peaceful reading space could begin to submit to the dictates of the fantastic ...

To such an extent it is so, that this book lady number thirteen you already have someone to take you to the movies. Jaume Balagueró announced that he will bring this story to the big screen. We will wait for news about it while the literary world recovers this book as a tasty advance, for that of: «the book is better ..., or the movie is just as I imagined it ...»

The point is that we are faced with a disturbing story, where dreams are again that connection with the unknown, with terror and mystery, a combination that always triumphs and even more so in this new approach.

Salomón Rulfo is not having a good time, life has defeated him in one of those tragic scenes that he mercilessly improvises. Perhaps that is why, in the midst of that weakness, that light sleep, Solomon begins to have a repetitive nightmare about death, a gloomy house ...

He knows that it must mean something. His nightmare is the representation of his dementia or something that claims him from another plane ...

After his nightmare, chance awaits him, that moment that finally ties the dots. And when everything takes on signs of certainty, restlessness and macabre curiosity push Solomon towards the ultimate truth.

It often happens that the ultimate truths are never good news when they are announced from dark dreams. Solomon's path, like a Dante through the circles of hell, may finally lead him to madness, or to a bright and beautiful lucidity, which can be the same depending on how you look at it ...

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