I truly believe there is some truth in the Neverending Story: that if we don’t use our imagination and connect to that world and remember, darkness and chaos will engulf us. It’s like a sound, a tone, a whisper that we have all forgotten and the job of a writer or visual artist is to chisel the airwaves until you hear that sound or tone and then use it in one form of expression or another to keep the memory alive. “I have this theory that Mexico is always spiraling into chaos because we are progressively forgetting the indigenous languages and sounds that populated the land, and that shocking loss of cultural memory has a direct effect in the madness that has engulfed many sides of my country. When a violent accident nearly kills her mother, Carmen realizes that it might be too late for her family to escape what’s been awakened…īased on the true, horrific story of how the Spanish conquistadors used piñatas to force Aztec children to destroy their gods, Piñata is a possession horror story about how the sinister repercussions of our past can return to haunt us. After a disastrous incident at the construction site uncovers an ancient relic that captivates Luna, Carmen’s forced by her New York bosses to leave Mexico earlier than they’d intended.īack in New York, Luna begins acting strangely, and Carmen and Izel can hear chilling whispers coming from her room late at night. The locals treat the Sanchez women like outsiders, while Carmen’s contractors openly defy and sabotage her work.

Her teen daughters, Izel and Luna, are with her for the summer, and left to fill their afternoons unsupervised in a foreign town, where young women go missing with alarming regularity. Piñata, a terrifying possession tale from author and artist Leopoldo Gout that reads like A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary, will be published by Nightfire in April 2022!Ĭarmen Sanchez is back in her home country of Mexico, overseeing the renovation of an ancient convent into a boutique hotel.

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