The horror community often asks for more diverse voices, more women in horror, and more stories that challenge the boundaries of the genre.

This is exactly what that support looks like.

This month, the Forbidden Planet Megastore will welcome internationally acclaimed author Silvia Moreno-Garcia for an intimate in-conversation event celebrating her newest novel, The Intrigue. Joining her on stage is acclaimed horror author V. Castro, making this one of the most exciting literary horror events London has to offer this summer.

For many readers, Moreno-Garcia became a household name through Mexican Gothic, a novel that reimagined gothic horror through a distinctly Mexican lens and proved that stories outside the traditional Western canon could captivate audiences worldwide. But she has never been content to remain in one genre. From fantasy and noir to historical fiction and supernatural horror, her work consistently explores identity, folklore, history, and power through richly layered narratives.

For horror fans, however, Silver Nitrate remains one of her most fascinating achievements.

Drawing on the legacy of Mexican genre cinema, occult mythology, and forgotten film history, the novel offered something genuinely fresh: a horror story rooted in cultural memory while paying homage to the country’s extraordinary cinematic traditions. It demonstrated that horror thrives when we allow new perspectives to reshape familiar fears.

Now Moreno-Garcia returns with The Intrigue, transporting readers to 1940s Veracruz, where handsome con artist Ulises believes he has discovered the perfect mark in boardinghouse owner Perla. Instead, he finds himself entangled in a web of deception, desire, and carefully guarded secrets. What begins as a confidence scheme quickly transforms into a tense psychological game where every character hides another layer beneath the surface.

Like so much of Moreno-Garcia’s work, The Intrigue is less interested in easy answers than in the darkness simmering beneath respectability. Set against the backdrop of post-war Mexico, it promises another richly atmospheric exploration of ambition, greed, romance, and betrayal.

Events like this are about far more than a book launch.

They’re an opportunity to hear directly from one of the most influential voices redefining contemporary speculative fiction and horror. They’re a chance to celebrate stories emerging from the Latin American diaspora and to engage with creators whose work continues to expand our understanding of what horror and genre fiction more broadly can be.

If we truly want a publishing landscape filled with diverse voices, we have to support them beyond social media conversations. We have to attend the events, buy the books, ask the questions, and fill the rooms.

Your ticket includes a hardcover copy of The Intrigue, along with the opportunity to hear Silvia Moreno-Garcia in conversation with V. Castro; two extraordinary writers whose work continues to push horror into bold new territory.

The horror community often talks about making space for underrepresented voices.

Let’s make sure those spaces are full.

Silvia Moreno-Garcia in-conversation at Forbidden Planet

Forbidden Planet
179 Shaftesbury AveLondon, England
Friday, July 17  •  5:30 PM – 6:30 PM

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