After a long summer of hibernation, withdrawn into her basement and eating
Doritos right off the bag, the common Maleficent wakes up and stretches out,
still puzzled at the light of the outside world. It's time to come out
into her natural habitat and look for a male to perpetuate the species. So begins
the mating dance that precedes copulation.
Attracted and roused up by the female's call, the male Maleficent
slowly emerges from his hideout; first, equally confused; then suspicious; and then, finally,
the female's irresistible call makes him become consumed by lust. Truly,
it's a marvel to behold how, after hibernation, once again life finds its way
through Creation.
Hi people! What's up? You'll be watching this
video on October the 31, Halloween, so
it's time for a horror book. This one's not only a story, but many.
After mentioning it in like 50k videos while I was reading it, today I finally bring you
(Spanish) THOSE AREN'T WINDMILLS by Editorial Cerbero.
An Anthology of "beret and staff." Synopsis: "20 approaches to the Beret & Staff genre.
20 tales that mix the deep Spain with Fantasy, Sci-Fi
and Horror. An anthology where many of the great voices of
the current literary world intone an unusual chant, full of nuance,
where strangeness meets the rural landscape. Spanish mythology comes out to dance
under the moonlight."
Let me make clear that here I may speak often of some books, and maybe some publishing houses
are often mentioned, but I want you to be sure that I work for none of them, nor
anyone has asked me to talk about these books. I picked them myself
freely because I read them and really liked them. Now, I'll start by saying
that I enjoyed absolutely every story of the book. The level of this anthology
is quite hight. I must however point out (and this isn't really
something that ruins the reading experience) that, I don't know if because of stress
or rushed deadlines, this novel (only in some of the tales)
this novel has several typos.
Not grammatical errors, but plain typos born from slipping fingers on the keyboard
or missing punctuation. In one of my favorite stories
(imagine how much I must have liked it) there is... maybe some periods are missing,
or some words aren't accentuated when they should,
and, at a certain moment, a character's name is mistaken for other's.
These are unusual mistakes, not really recurrent. The only
flaw I found in this anthology is that, in some stories, there are
typos, okay? I suppose they were made during
the stress of last-time preparations and revisions, and computer programs must have also
had a part in it. You know, autocorrect and stuff.
If you're not the kind of reader that has a mini-heart-attack as soon as they spot a typo
and you can bear it, you can be sure that the quality of the stories and the atmosphere
each of them inspire totally makes up for any typo that may be in them.
So, setting those tiny mistakes aside,
the rest is <3. I know that there's 20,
20 stories, okay? But I couldn't help myself, and I made a TOP 5 of my
favorite stories from the book. Number 5 is DELI BAL, a tale about
a dodgy guy who often fights with his neighbour because of land issues.
He starts segregating some kind of honey through his skin, and this honey has
very strange, unpredictable effects in the people who eat it. It entered the TOP
because it's funny, well-explained and
it made me laugh out loud. It's so random. In the 4th place is OIL. This is the story
of an elderly man who's hanging out with his friends at the bar, when they notice
that the man screeches like an old door and suffers strange achings, so his friends take him
to see a mysterious woman, the owner of an apothecary like no other in the village,
and the man tells her his life while she prepares a remedy to his ailments.
It's a sweet, pleasant story, and the ending,
though bittersweet, was satisfying and closed the tale perfectly.
There's a mistake often made with short stories in anthologies:
I don't know if the reason are rushed deadlines or tiredness or lack of inspiration,
some writers start well with their story.
They build the pace, flow through the plot without problems...
but then, especially in the final scene,
they just ham-fist a plot-twist in the story, something just to shock the reader,
an effective sentence or paragraph... and that's the end of the story. And you're left
feeling like you missed something, like you need some kind of... aftermath.
A final unravelling of the plot that explains just "why", you know? A more
well-rounded, satisfying, closed ending. The ending of OIL was very well-done in my opinion,
and though there was a last-minute bit of plot-twist, it was a foreseeable one.
So it made sense and felt good, okay? Now, numbers 5 and 4 are out.
Now comes number 3, we keep rising! Number 3 is WE WASTE NOTHING,
the story of a married couple who travels with their two sons, each with a terrible illness,
to a faraway house near a village in the middle of nowhere.
The villagers are weird and creepy, but soon the couple
will discover that there's a way to, perhaps, cure their sons. The price, though, might be high, terribly so,
and morally grey with a load of black in the mixture. Precisely this tale was the one
with the most typos, so go figure; despite that, it made its way to TOP 3. That might
tell you about how much I liked it. I found this story the most chilling
and shady. WE WASTE NOTHING. Now, number 2...
These were the ones that left me speechless, okay? Number 2 is
THE BEWITCHED OF THE CLIFF, the tale of a XIX century Spanish shepherdess
named Dori (Adoración - Dori). She's with her flock one day when
she goes near a cliff and encounters an eerie, beautiful woman with silvery clothes.
She seems to be a ghost, and she asks for the shepherdess' help.
From then on, Dori will visit the ghost often and the story
will unravel towards a beautiful, sad and melancholic ending.
Also very well-closed, I loved it. In fact, this was the last tale in the book,
and I think it was the perfect final note for the anthology. THE BEWITCHED OF THE CLIFF.
And now, number 1, my personal winner
in this marvelous anthology. It was, precisely, the story
that made me buy it. The Cerbero guys would upload the first 1-2 paragraphs
of every tale to Twitter to build up hype. The moment I read
the initial paragraph of this one story, I said "Fuck it" and ran to order the anthology.
I just loved it. Number 1 is 50% COTTON 50% POLYESTER.
It tells the story of an old woman consumed by desire, hunger and
unmeasured lust for the young man that works in the street market, helping his parents.
This tale is told
in 2nd person, as we read the thoughts and confessions that this
old woman with plenty of secrets dedicates to this robust,
young man she wishes to possess. And it's not only its great writing,
or the great plot, and the mindblowing plot-twist; the thing that made me fall in love
was the costumbrist portrait, the vivid descriptions... it was wonderful.
I felt like I was right there, in my town's street market, smelling the sweat, the
roasted chicken and the dust and metal of the stands, it's so cool.
In summary, 20 short stories, each one special in its own way.
All of them share motifs of the Spanish genre "Beret and Staff",
and many are dark and gritty, but you will remember all of them.
It's not common to find an anthology like this one. Stories in anthologies tend
to oscilate in quality, so I was pleased to realize that this particular anthology
had a rather high quality on average. It's no wonder that THOSE AREN'T WINDMILLS by Editorial Cerbero
sold like hot pies as soon as it was available. So, if you don't feel like
binge-watching horror movies because you scare easily, but you still want to
feel the magic of Halloween by the fireplace while you gorge on
roasted chestnuts (be careful then with the farting), I strongly reccomend
(Spanish) THOSE AREN'T WINDMILLS by Editorial Cerbero.
Read it, read it! Now, horror books aside...
I want to show you something. A week ago
I went to the highschool next town to present THE VISIT OF THE SELKIE. I sold many books
and the students behaved so well, they were so nice and asked so many questions,
and I had a great time with them.
Truly great young guys, with a lot of potential.
And I wanted to point out that a girl named Fátima (Hi Fátima! You might
be watching this video) Well, that girl
drew a picture and gave it to me while I was signing books the day after the presentation.
She made me a portrait, see? She must have found a photo of me
on social media and decided to make this gorgeous drawing.
Fátima, keep drawing because you're very good at it. I love the picture!
There it is, hanging on my wall, so I can look at your gift.
More news! Pay attention to this November the 17th, because the EuroSteamCon
comes to Armilla! We'll be there. Here you can see
the time and place.Thanks to the Time Machinists Association,
I'll be there selling prints and my novels, in case you want to drop by
my stand and talk with me, or buy my stuff, or just watch me from afar
while muttering "Look, there she is, the weirdo who uploads those videos to Youtube."
And that was today's video. See you next time, and thank you so much
for watching me one more time. Bye-bye! :D
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