BEST NATIONAL
NOVEL
“Extraños eons” (Strange
Eons) by Emilio Bueso (Valdemar)
“Strange Eons is
the most intelligent and original input of the lovecraftian mythology of the
past decades: a remarkable combination of Pasolini, Mahfuz, Lynch and Cthulhu
Mythos, for the new and dark millennium.” Jesús
Palacios
Cairo’s the City of the Dead is not an ordinary district, but
the largest cemetery of the planet, a monumental ocean of bones where five
abandoned children live and where an emissary of some of the most ancient
forces, older than humans, the sand of the desert and the capricious orbits
tracing the stars in their cycles of madness settle.
This is the story of a plan to obliterate the world, of a
silver key hidden in a tomb in Barcelona, of a car trip to the limits of
sanity… and of five wretches who intend to frustrate the designs of chaos’
first motor, the antithesis of creation, the foolish sultan of demons, that
groans, gnaws and drools in the center of the final emptiness.
Strange Eons is an audacious twist of the core of
Cthulhu Mythos. With a severe language and a vibrant pulse with which he used
us already, Emilio Bueso is exceeding a perverse story that proves why he has
converted into the writer to called to revolutionize the Spanish horror
literature.
BEST NATIONAL
SHORT STORY
“Los peces” (The
Fish) by David Jasso (Donde reside el horror, Edge Entertainment)
BEST NATIONAL
ANTHOLOGY
‘‘El manjar inmundo”
(The Unclean Dish) by Javier Quevedo Puchal (Punto en boca)
Urban hunters after the most coveted prey. A strange tower
without doors. Old obsessions over lost beauty. Familiar demons locked in the
attic. The heart of a witch buried under a rosebush. Nights of black veils like
crepes… Javier Quevedo Puchal, winner of the Nocte Award, presents with The
Unclean Dish a fascinating anthology of gothic short stories inspired by tales
of classic fairies, from the Grimm Brothers to Andersen and Perrault. Thirteen
amazing deconstructions of the stories with which everybody grew up. Thirteen
disturbing narrations that reflect on our darker side, but also on those
weaknesses making us more human. The Unclean Dish is, in the end, the perfect
feast for tasting, like an excellent red wine. With spaced sips. Without hurry.
The same as those stories of our childhood that we read each night before
sleeping at the lamp’s light.
“Javier
Quevedo Puchal reshapes the classic fairy tales archetype extracting from his predecessors
the most corrupt sap, hidden in the deepest layers. Starting with the essence
of perversion, reshapes the proposed for adorning his stories with a grotesque
beauty, packs them with evocative images that end imprinted in the reader’s
subconscious.” Darío Vilas
“In The Unclean Dish, Javier Quevedo Puchal serves us a menu
that we believe is familiar and appearing now darkly dressed in exotic touches.
Like a sumptuous literary feast, it is best to read these stories slowly,
savoring them; basking in their flavor together with a glass of good wine. One
more thing, future diners: go without the coffee at the end. The splendid
stories that form The Unclean Dish
keep us up the great part of the night without further stimulants. It’s a
friendly advice. You’ll thank me.” Toni Hill
BEST
TRANSLATED BOOK
“NOS4R2 (Nosferatu)”
by Joe Hill (Suma de letras)
BEST TRANSLATED
SHORT STORY
“Ese autobús es de
otro mundo” (That Bus is Another World) by Stephen King (published in Esquire España magazine)
HONORARY AWARD
Gigamesh Bookstore,
for 40 years of working with the horror genre
Congratulations to all the winners!
