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Notes on the art of writing fantastic stories
The atmosphere and not the action is the great desideratum of fantastic literature.
The reason why I write fantastic stories is that they give me personal satisfaction and I approach the vague, elusive, fragmentary sensation of the marvelous, of the beautiful and of the visions that fill me with certain perspectives (scenes, architectures, landscapes, atmosphere, etc.), ideas, occurrences, and images.
My predilection for supernatural stories is because they fit perfectly with my personal inclinations; One of my strongest longings is to achieve the suspension or momentary violation of the irritating limitations of time, space and natural laws that govern us and frustrate our desire to investigate the infinite regions of the cosmos, which are now beyond our reach, beyond our point of view.
These stories try to increase the feeling of fear since fear is our strongest and deepest emotion and one that best lends itself to defying the canons of natural laws. Terror and the unknown are always related, so intimately united that it is difficult to create a convincing image of the destruction of natural laws, of cosmic alienation and of external presences…
