Silvia Moreno-Garcia is the multi-award-winning author of Mexican Gothic (a New York Times bestseller), Gods of Jade and Shadow (one of Time magazine's top 100 fantasy novels of all time), The Beautiful Ones, Certain Dark Things, the noir thrillers Untamed Shore and Velvet was the Night, The Daughter of Doctor Moreau, Silver Nitrate and the forthcoming The Seventh Veil of Salome. She has won the Locus and British Fantasy awards for her work as a novelist, and the World Fantasy Award as an editor. Born and brought up in Mexico, she now lives in Vancouver, Canada.
Silvia Moreno-Garcia's gritty novel is steeped in the history of Mexico City and vampire lore and yet manages to deftly re-invent the bloodsucker . . . Certain Dark Things packs a wallop * Paul Tremblay, author of A Head Full of Ghosts * With its vibrant prose and stellar world-building, Certain Dark Things is one of the best books I've read in years * V.E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author * Silvia Moreno-Garcia pulls zero punches, bares all the fangs, and goes for every throat in the room with Certain Dark Things * Stephen Graham Jones, author of The Only Good Indians * A delicious, elegant, gritty vampire noir. Moreno-Garcia has created a world that pulses with life and terror and honesty * Daniel Jose Older, New York Times bestselling author * A fresh, stunning interpretation of vampire lore . . . Silvia Moreno-Garcia's writing is unforgettable * Christina Henry, author of Alice and The Ghost Tree * Silvia Moreno-Garcia carves out the heart of Mexico City, and then eats it, in this riveting noir-punk reinvention of vampire lore. Certain Dark Things is exquisitely vicious and brutally beautiful * Ann Aguirre, New York Times bestselling author * Certain Dark Things is dark, inimitable, and so very, very cool. Unmissable * Lavie Tidhar, World Fantasy Award-winning author of Osama * Certain Dark Things is arguably the vampire novel for the 21st century * New York Journal of Books * With dark and delicious elegance, Moreno-Garcia delivers a satisfyingly bloody vampire story with a tantalising twist * The Globe and Mail * Moreno-Garcia's characters are vivid and compelling, as is her prose. As a novel, it's fantastic: honest, wrenching, compassionate, and brutal * Tor.com *