Latine Horror
Check out these horror books by authors of Latina/o/e background! Annotations from NoveList, unless otherwise attributed.
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Eartheater
A woman from an underprivileged region of contemporary Argentina teams up with a withdrawn police officer when she develops uncontrollable pica that triggers visions of murdered and missing people, including her own mother.
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Tiny Threads
Samara has moved to California to take her dream job working for famous fashion designer Antonio Mota. Then she starts hearing voices and seeing strange things and discovers that the town and Mota's house might be hiding some horrific secrets beneath the glamour. (Library Journal)
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Pedro Páramo
A quintessentially Mexican, modernist gothic novel transports readers to the village of Comalaa, a ghost town on the desert plains in Mexico populated by the wandering souls of former inhabitants--individuals not yet pure enough to enter heaven.
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Monstrilio
Grief takes the shape of a monster in Sámano Córdova’s disturbing yet touching literary horror debut. (Booklist)
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Through the Night Like A Snake
In ten chilling stories from an ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, including Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Camila Sosa Villlada (tr. Kit Maude), Claudia Hernández (tr. by Julia Sanches and Johanna Warren) and Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker and Noelle de la Paz), horror infiltrates the unexpected, taboo regions of the present-day psyche.
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Thirst
In present day Buenos Aires, a woman, grappling with her dying mother, encounters a vampire in a cemetery, and as they confront fear, loneliness, mortality and yearning, something ignites between them while the weight of Buenos Aires' tumultuous past resurfaces in the dramas of the present.
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