After earning her doctorate in history at the University of Valencia, Pilar Pedraza has been teaching Film and avant-garde cinema there since 1982.

[3] Pilar Pedraza's stories and novels present disturbing characters and environments, in which the sinister presence of the supernatural (dead that return to life, demons, enchanted objects) is associated with madness, death, and sadomasochistic pleasure.

This theme, which dominates her first novel, Las joyas de la serpiente (1984), undergoes a gradual stylization in subsequent deliveries.

In La perra de Alejandría (2003) Pedraza offers a peculiar version of the story of Hypatia (Melanta, in the novel), who is presented as a victim of the confrontation between the cult of Dionysus and that of Christ, led by the bishop Críspulo (an analogue of Cyril of Alexandria).

Descenso a las criptas de la literatura y el cine (2004) – the latter winning the 2005 Premio Ignotus for best essay book[4] – explores different facets of fear and fascination caused in man by the image of the sinister woman, seen as a lethal seductress, android without soul, or corpse that defies death.