In September 1930, Aleister Crowley appears in Lisboa unexpectedly. Expelled from Italia by Mussolini himself, Crowley was well-known for being very sinister. His detractors thought of him as the most evil person in the world; they said he worshiped the devil as well as practised black magic. The reason for his visit to Portugal was to meet Fernando Pessoa, a man of his same political beliefs, with whom he kept secret correspondence. The magician’s name was soon in headlines and in police records since, after an enigmatic chess game in Sintra, the obscure Crowley disappeared in the cliff of the Boca do Inferno, leaving behind him a cryptic suicide note.

Pasajeros de la niebla is based on a true story and the author presents us with a possibility that can make us shudder. What if Crowley’s reason to visit Portugal was different? Montserrat Rico takes us to magical 19th-century Sintra in a mysterious and enthralling plot.