First published 2026
Cynthia Pelayo, winner of the Bram Stoker Award, assembles seventeen Latiné writers to explore terror through the lens of immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore. These stories transform inherited fears into supernatural nightmares that cross borders and generations. The dead whisper behind locked doors while bones reconstruct themselves beneath brutal suns. Love opens pathways for demonic appetites. Prayers call forth responses that arrive either too late or with devastating completeness. Ancient forces claim bodies in haunted homes, brutal territories, and sacred spaces turned lethal. The past returns with fangs, interweaving blood, devotion, and memory. Contributors include Agustina Bazterrica, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Isabel Cañas, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Zoraida Córdova, Mariana Enriquez, and Daniel José Older. These tales prove that history never dies, the deceased never stay quiet, and our origins always track us down.
Genres: anthologies, horror, supernatural, dark-fantasy, latin-american-literature, short-story-collection
Vibes: atmospheric, dark, haunting, lyrical, thought-provoking, visceral
Tropes: ancestral-curse, demonic-possession, haunted-spaces, inherited-fear
336 pages · Paperback · Atria/Primero Sueno Press
Content warnings: colonialism, death, violence