fuentes

A Möbius striptease. Time is a permeable membrane.Cervantes and Caesar, Bosch and Quetzalcoatl.Historical figures rise, maggot-ridden from their tombs to conquer, make love, philosophize and dissolve in the polychromatic strobe of dreams. These fantasies fuse with antiquity, birthed from moldered tomes, exhausting the faiths of pious men, eviscerating kings, and…

Fuentes serves up a vampire yarn in a minimalist style. Compared to many of his other works, this one is straightforward, short, and perhaps a departure from his ordinary fare. What begins as a hilarious and subtly creepy familial tale, complete with comedic and eccentric descriptions of a Count morphs…