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“Tragically, for decades, Gabriela Rábago Palafox was a secret writer, a cult figure whose books were nearly impossible to find and whose legend persisted in the darkest corners of Mexican literary culture. Much like her nocturnal creatures, however, Rábago Palafox is now returning to the land of the living. The Voice of Blood, a collection of her stories around the vampire myth, is a revelation: old monsters are made anew—sometimes as metaphors, others as true beings from the shadows—and they call to us, so we find ourselves in them.” —Raquel Castro, author of Playlist
“Before her untimely death, Gabriela Rábago Palafox was a trailblazer. Now she can be one again. Her stories illuminate the intersection of history, contemporary experiences and the uncanny, transforming the centuries-old tales of the vampire into new myths. This is a book of horror fiction as different as one can find from both the old classics and the newest paperbacks of the genre. From her views on earthly (patriarchal) power to her most chilling nightmares, Rábago Palafox’s The Voice of Blood gives us something timeless.” —Alberto Chimal, author of Scary Story
“For many years, Gabriela Rábago Palafox has been the secret “cool aunt” of a few Mexican writers who, even without knowing of her existence, sensed that another kind of literature could be created, one in which the expression of the fantastic would challenge the status quo in a more eloquent, precise, and liberating way. The Voice of Blood confirms that we are part of a rebellious genealogy that didn’t stop with Amparo Dávila or Guadalupe Dueñas, but rather mutated in Gabriela, whether through the generous tools of children’s literature, fantasy literature, horror, or science fiction, evolving into a literature capable of naming not only the oppressions that still loom over us, but of dismantling them with the demiurgic power of language, of narrative. We owe you so much, dear Gabriela!” —Gabriela Damián Miravete, author of They Will Dream in the Garden
