Latine Horror
Check out these horror books by authors of Latina/o/e background! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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The Hacienda
In the aftermath of the Mexican War of Independence and the execution of her father, Beatriz accepts Don Rodolfo Solorzano's proposal of marriage and is whisked away to his remote country estate where she is faced with a malevolent presence linked to his first wife's death.
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The Houseguest and Other Stories
The borders between the animal, human, and spirit worlds are constantly breached in these creepy magical realist tales of grief and obsession. (Kirkus)
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The Obscene Bird of Night
Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso’s terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day.
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Piñata
Returning to New York with her daughters after supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey in Mexico, Carmen Sanchez soon discovers that something evil and unexplainable has followed them home--and it may already be too late to escape what's been awakened.
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A Night of Screams
Santos brings together 18 stories and four poems for a wide-ranging anthology that demonstrates the hybridity of the horror genre. (Publishers Weekly)
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Craft
A collection of short stories as told by a Brazilian-American writer who slept with the devil at a Halloween party in 1999 and who spends the rest of her life describing to him beautiful and impossible things.
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Candelaria
After a cataclysmic earthquake hits Boston, a grandmother must follow her visions and travel across the crumbling city battling strange entities to the Watertown Mall Old Country Buffet to save her three granddaughters and possibly the whole world.
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Fury
Sex, revenge, death, and hidden histories populate a rough landscape in this experimental debut...A moody, spiky yarn of inherited loss and violence. (Kirkus)
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Nefando
Six young people living together in Barcelona collaborate on a multimedia experience that messes with everybody’s heads. (Kirkus)
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Lotería
Newly illustrated and with bonus stories, an updated edition of the award-winning short story collection features a unique tale for each of the 54 cards in the Mexican board game Loteria, with images of murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls.
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