Supernatural cartographies. Gothic horror imagery in Patricia Esteban Erles' short stories

Abstract

Patricia Esteban Erles' short story production belongs to the most recent fantastic narrative approaches. Through her lucid outlook, the Zaragoza writer has gradually created her own universe, in which no mimetic poetics combine with horror and everyday threats. The features that circumscribe her writings turn out to be a renovation of previous fantastic fiction paradigms, but they also recall several motifs from both narrative and cinematographic gothic sources. This study aims to highlight the role these supernatural gothic aspects play in plot developments, and how the author uses them to leave open the abyss of the uncertain.