Luis G. Abbadie - Career

Career

Abbadie was born in Guadalajara, Jalisco.

During his literary development, he participated in workshops coordinated by Flaviano Castañeda Valencia, Víctor Manuel Pazarín, Gabriel Gómez, and others.

When El último relato de Ambrose Bierce (1995) was first published, only 250 copies were issued. In 1996, a new edition of this work was announced, but it was supposedly canceled before it was ever brought to fruition. The journal El Informador (January 3, 1996) mentioned that this second edition was published and sold out.

El grito de la máscara (1998) contains El último relato de Ambrose Bierce, edited and expanded. It was re-edited by Cibermancia Editores retitled as El último relato de Ambrose Bierce (2007).

Since 1992, Abbadie has worked on his exhaustive story of the Necronomicon, based on and continuing the stories he wrote for the Cthulhu Mythos. El Necronómicon: un comentario (2000) is a synthesis of his work compiled up to that time. Due to his various writings on the subject, he is considered an expert in the Necronomicon.

Códice Otarolense (2002) with the subtitle of Sumario de la historia de la formación del mundo y de los dioses y diablos de la Nueva España, con una exposición de las hechicerías y alabanzas de los indios naturales de esta tierra, hecho y recopilado por Fray Guillermo de Otarola y Guzmán, de la orden de San Francisco, en el mes de Agosto del año de 1548, para el muy reverendísimo Señor Don Fray Juan de Zumárraga, Obispo de la muy leal y gran Ciudad de México was published by the Apoyo a Jóvenes Creadores, Subdivisión Literatura, del Fondo Estatal para la Cultura y las Artes (FECA) del Estado de Jalisco (Support for Young Creators, Literary Subdivision of the Jalisco State Fund for Culture and the Arts, 1999-2000 edition.

Of Gods and Time (2007) is his first book in English.

His most recent book is 2012: El código secreto del Necronomicón (Rémora Editorial, 2010).

"it's a novel in the same unusual sense in which books ranging from The da Vinci Code to the Teachings of Don Juan", which are radical extremes, may be novels, but it shares in common with these examples that it contains abundant information poured into the story which is much more approachable through a novelized language than it would be as a technical book. —Ricardo Solís, La Jornada Jalisco, August 28, 2010 Within the novel there appear personalities from the past and present of the city of Guadalajara, such as Enrique González Martínez, Álvaro Leonor Ochoa, Raffles, the Mataindigentes (Indigents' Killer) or Juan Kraeppellin; in the author¡s words, "the three subjects overlapping are: Guadalajara, its places and personalities; the Necronomicon and its mythology; and New Age doctrines, concerning aliens and 2012. —Luis G. Abbadie, La Jornada Jalisco, August 28, 2010

He is the author of an essay about horror literature that has been published several times in Mexico, Argentina and Spain

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