Mexican Gothic
Book • 2020 • Horror
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Is rape mentioned?
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Rape is attempted and then brought up again by the victim.
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Is there decapitation?
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A woman shoots herself in the head with a shotgun
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Abandonment
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Abuse
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Is there domestic violence?
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Not in the traditional sense. The son is very abusive, not because he was abused but rather because he was raised to be abuse.
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Gaslighting is one of the main themes of the book
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Francis says, when he was small, that Howard beat him with a cane
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Addiction
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Is there addiction?
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A character is accused of being addicted to opium
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Animal
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Is there a dead animal?
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Meat
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Are there snakes?
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The image of a snake is mentioned throughout but not actual snakes.
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Are there bugs?
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The fungus causes Noémi to hear bugs that aren’t there
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Assault
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Virgil sexually assaults Noemí multiple times throughout the book. At first she thinks these assaults are happening in dreams.
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Bodily Harm
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Is there cannibalism?
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[SPOILER]
A flash back involves a new born being ritually killed and eaten. It’s not particularly violent but still horrifying messed.
A flash back involves a new born being ritually killed and eaten. It’s not particularly violent but still horrifying messed.
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Is someone burned alive?
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Spoiler: The climax of the book involves the protagonists lighting the mansion on fire. Some antagonist characters get stuck inside and burn alive, but there's no descriptions of their suffering.
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Main character is drugged into submission and later wakes up in bed.
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Catalina has a seizure after Noemi gives her medicine from the curandera
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Are any teeth damaged?
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There's a brief mention of dreaming about falling teeth
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Noémi burns her hand while smoking and later Florence crushes her fingers—breaking bones.
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Is someone tortured?
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amwhite91
Psychological torture and gaslighting happen throughout the book.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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amwhite91
Happens to Francis' father before the events of the book
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Is there excessive gore?
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Howard and Agnes’ decaying bodies are described in detail
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Children
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Does a kid die?
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[SPOILER]
A flash back involves a new born being ritually killed and eaten. It’s not particularly violent but still horrifying messed.
A flash back involves a new born being ritually killed and eaten. It’s not particularly violent but still horrifying messed.
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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Francis attempts to sacrifice himself but is saved by Noémi.
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Does a non-human character die?
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The fungus is killed
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Disability
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
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amwhite91
Catalina's parents died before the events of the book. Spoiler: Francis ends up killing his mother.
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Does someone cheat?
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amwhite91
Virgil keeps trying to have sex with Noemí even though he's married to Catalina.
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Fear
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Is there a shower scene?
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Chapter 17 features the protagonist taking a bath
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
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amwhite91
Spoiler: The patriarch vomits the fungus into Noemí's mouth. Then Noemí vomits later
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
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LGBTQ+
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Medical
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Catalina is given opium through an eyedropper, not a syringe.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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There is constant discussion of having Catalina sent to a psychiatrist and/or a mental facility, but this doesn't end up happening.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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Spoiler: towards the end, when Francis is recovering from the events of the book
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Does someone have cancer?
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Howard has tumors all over his body. But he is infected with an evil fungus. Six of one half dozen of the other.
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Mental Health
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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This is hard to answer one way or the other. The characters in the book who are at first framed as mentally ill actually aren't; they've just been severely gaslighted. One such character ends up striking against the family's power source so that she and the other protagonists can escape.
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Francis goes with his Uncle who he knows will attempt to kill him.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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The protagonist and her cousin are gaslighted into staying in a house.
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Mentioned, but not shown. A character's father jumped into a ravine before the events of the book.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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Ambiguous as to whether Francis is having nightmares due to post traumatic stress at the end of the book or whether the fungus still has a hold on him.
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Noxious
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Pregnancy
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Does someone miscarry?
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Virgil’s first wife miscarried 4 times in a row. It’s not described since it happened before the events of the book
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Prejudice
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Is there ableist language or behavior?
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Mostly in the form of saneism
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Is there hate speech?
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amwhite91
The main antagonist is big into eugenics and talks a lot of "superior and inferior races."
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
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Of about ten years
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Sex
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The antagonist family is chock-full of incest
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Does someone have a chronic illness?
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Howard is dying because the fungus is weak. He moans in pain through the night multiple times because the injuries from when Ruth shot him never fully healed.
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Social
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Does it have a sad ending?
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Noémi, Catalina, and Francis escape, but the fungus enslaved servants are killed and Francis’ nightmares suggest that the fungus may not actually be dead.
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Vehicular
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Does a car crash?
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No, but Florence says that the road quality could cause a crash.
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