Silvia Moreno Garcia Books in Order

This first collection moves through fantasy, horror, and science fiction, from vampires in Mexico City to uncanny folklore and stranger futures. The stories are imaginative on the surface but grounded in ordinary desire, dread, and survival.

This collection gathers 18 speculative stories about love, longing, and the ways tenderness can turn dangerous. Moreno-Garcia moves between fantasy, horror, and science fiction while keeping the emotional stakes close and human.

In 1988 Mexico City, Meche and her friends discover they can work magic through music. Twenty years later, old grief, broken friendships, and unfinished spells pull them back toward the summer that changed everything.

In an alternate Mexico City shaped by vampire politics, street kid Domingo helps Atl, a young vampire fleeing a deadly rival clan. Their escape becomes a violent race through a city full of gangs, cops, and predators.

Amelia dreams of Mars but is stuck in a near-future Mexico City, scraping by on odd jobs and blood sales. When an old relationship drifts back into view, she must choose between resignation and one last shot at escape.

During Loisail's glittering social season, awkward telekinetic Nina is drawn to famed entertainer Hector Auvray, who offers to help her master her powers. But gossip, old wounds, and hidden motives make their romance anything but simple.

In 1920s Mexico, Casiopea Tun opens a mysterious box and frees the Mayan god of death. To survive, she must help him reclaim his throne on a journey through jazz-age cities, jungles, and the underworld.

Co-written with Crawford Kilian, this practical guide breaks down how to build worlds, shape characters, and plot science fiction and fantasy. It is aimed at newer writers and keeps its advice concrete, useful, and clear.

After a disturbing letter from her newly married cousin, Noemí Taboada travels to a decaying estate in 1950s Mexico. What looks like a family crisis turns into a deeply unsettling mystery about the house, the Doyles, and the past.

In a sleepy Baja California town in 1979, Viridiana dreams of escape until a wealthy American writer and his companions arrive. A sudden death pulls her into lies, shifting identities, and a dangerous game she barely understands.

This audio collection pairs two novellas with very different moods: the near-future yearning of Prime Meridian and the hard-edged revenge fantasy of The Return of the Sorceress. Together they show Moreno-Garcia's range in compact form.

Deposed sorceress Yalxi sets out to recover the diamond heart that powers her magic and destroy the lover who stole her throne. It is a lean revenge fantasy full of uneasy allies, old wounds, and sharp choices.

In 1970s Mexico City, lonely secretary Maite becomes obsessed with the disappearance of her glamorous neighbor. Her search collides with Elvis, a reluctant enforcer, and together they drift into politics, violence, and betrayal.

On a remote Yucatán estate, Carlota Moreau lives under her father's careful rules among his hybrid creations. The arrival of charming Eduardo Lizalde upsets the fragile order and exposes the human cost of Doctor Moreau's experiments.

During the Mexican Revolution, a girl and her gentle brother face a more immediate danger when an escaped tiger prowls their mountain farm. It is a brief, tense story about family, fear, and survival.

In 1990s Mexico City, sound editor Montserrat and faded actor Tristán help an old horror director finish a cursed film. What starts as movie lore becomes a dangerous encounter with occult history, ghosts, and buried desires.

In a frozen village, Judith longs for love and watches her beautiful sister win the handsome stranger she wanted. Then another figure emerges from the woods, and desire turns eerie, dangerous, and strangely liberating.

In 1950s Hollywood, unknown Mexican actress Vera Larios lands the role every starlet wants, setting off envy and backstage scheming. The novel also reimagines Salome herself, braiding studio glamour with desire, ambition, and tragedy.

A graduate student, a Depression-era writer, and a girl in early twentieth-century Mexico all brush against the same shadow of witchcraft. Their linked stories build a chilly multigenerational horror novel about power, stories, and inheritance.

In 1940s Mexico, con man Ulises targets the owner of a small-town boardinghouse through lonely-hearts letters. But her sharp-eyed niece wants in on the scheme, and greed, attraction, and secrets quickly complicate the plan.