lonely ghosts, zombies and grim houses  |
| Generation XXI. April 2011. |
horror writer, journalist for twenty years and editor of the weekly current Ezeiza's Word, José María Marcos tells us about his latest book always hungry ghosts on entrepreneurship Bite editorial Dead and the relationship that journalism and terror. Gary Holt interview to
Generation XXI (*)
Ghosts, zombies and grim houses do not seem to be a material with which a worker performs daily press, unless it is also a horror writer: José María Marcos does both, has twenty years of journalism and began publishing last three books of horror. Mark has published three books: Memories
parasites, written with his brother Charles in 2007 and
always hungry ghosts launched in December 2010. Marcos siblings also direct the bite imprint Dead.
- Why did you choose terror as a genre? -terror, or contemporary horror is a genre that is seen evil socially interests me because it transgresses boundaries of common sense and thought provoking things differently. It allows us to take reality and smash it with a chainsaw in order to put it together again, as explained by British author Clive Barker. As for the contemporary, I am interested in taking a look today, my stories are facts that can happen today.
- What things are reflected in Ezeiza Ghosts ... ? "I was born in Uribelarrea (Cañuelas), I lived in La Plata and Capital, live long in Ezeiza. My story is a bit on each side. In the story''El Gordo''is a guy who needs to lose weight and his father decided to tie him to not eat for a couple of months. I imagine that story in the Linda Vista neighborhood, in my mind was on those streets, then I changed the name to the city. My stories have that mixture of places where people can find things they read Ezeiza Uribelarrea or Capital.
- What were your literary influences? "The influences are things that one I hit. I was touched by stories of Ernesto Sabato, Enrique Medina and Stephen King. They were storytellers who work with clear and direct language. They were my first great love of literature.
- How do you perceive the relationship between journalism and literature? -journalism works on the social agenda, the diurnal, shared hopes. The literature that addresses the issue chose night life nightmares. Are aspects that journalism can not address. The journalist talks about the shared dreams, and literature shared nightmares.
- Tell me about the editorial Bite Dead? "It created a stamp with my brother Carlos. He is interested in erotic literature, to me the horror. We named it "bites" by erotic collection and "Dead" by terror, but we like literature in general create the library "Neither Dead Nor Bite", where they enter other streams. Immaculate
launched by Carlos, a work erotic
Ghosts ... , terror, and
Weightless , delusional realism written by Fernando Figueras. We try to create a seal to address these literary movements that do not treat other publishers with high quality books and contemporary authors dealing with these genres today.
(*) in April 2011.
