Goddess of Filth
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3.8 • 9 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
“Five of us sat in a circle doing our best to emulate the girls in The Craft, hoping to unleash some power to take us all away from our home to the place of our dreams. But we weren’t witches. We were five Chicanas living in San Antonio, Texas, one year out of high school.”
One hot summer night, best friends Lourdes, Fernanda, Ana, Perla, and Pauline hold a séance. It’s all fun and games at first, but their tipsy laughter turns to terror when the flames burn straight through their prayer candles and Fernanda starts crawling toward her friends and chanting in Nahuatl, the language of their Aztec ancestors.
Over the next few weeks, shy, modest Fernanda starts acting strangely—smearing herself in black makeup, shredding her hands on rose thorns, sucking sin out of the mouths of the guilty. The local priest is convinced it's a demon, but Lourdes begins to suspect it’s something else—something far more ancient and powerful.
As Father Moreno's obsession with Fernanda grows, Lourdes enlists the help of her “bruja Craft crew” and a professor, Dr. Camacho, to understand what is happening to her friend in this unholy tale of possession-gone-right.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Goddess of Filth is feminist horror at its best. Straitlaced Fernanda and her friends are just having a bit of fun when they conduct a ritual to help relieve their drought-stricken Texas hometown. But things get weird and scary when Fernanda starts rolling around in the dirt, muttering in the language of the Aztecs. The ancient deity they’ve summoned turns out to be an amazing force in the young women’s lives, helping them shed their insecurities and pursue their dreams—until a local priest catches on and becomes obsessed with exorcising Fernanda’s “demon.” Narrator Stacy Gonzalez adds warmth and intensity to this chilling supernatural tale. V. Castro’s novel is a vivid and scary story about the horrors of poverty, racism, and misogyny, and how they brutally affect women of color.
