After receiving a unsettling letter from her cousin, Noemí arrives to the isolated Doyle family mansion perched high in the mountains. The house is cold and damp, filled with the scent of earth and silence. Catalina is delirious and speaks of voices in the walls, yet her husband and his family behave as if nothing is wrong. It slowly becomes clear that the evil here is not a ghost, it is physical, ancient, and rooted in the ground beneath the house

The atmosphere is thick and suffocating. While reading, you feel as if you’re breathing heavy, humid air. Every scene carries a sense of sticky dread and helplessness, as if the house itself is swallowing you whole.

decaying beauty

sticky fear

female defiance

earth and rot

fungal horror

claustrophobic dread