A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist...
A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink...
A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas...
The mountain fog is not what it seems...
Kermit the Frog dreams of murder...
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.
Mónica Ojeda (Ecuador, 1988) is the author of the novels
La desfiguración Silva,
Nefando, and
Mandíbula, as well as the poetry collections
El ciclo de las piedras and
Historia de la leche. Her stories have been published in the anthology
Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos and the collections
Caninos and
Las voladoras. In 2017, she was included on the Bógota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.
Tomás Downey (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1984) is a translator, screenwriter and one of the foremost short story writers in Argentina today. His work often draws comparisons to Mariana Enríquez and Samanta Schweblin. It tends to draw out the strangeness hidden beneath the surface of everyday life. He is the author of three short stories collections,
Acá el tiempo es otra cosa,
El lugar donde mueren los pájaros and
Flores que se abren de noche.
Camila Sosa Villada was born in 1982 in La Falda (Córdoba, Argentina). She is a writer, actress, and singer, and previously earned a living as a sex worker, street vendor, and hourly maid. She holds degrees in communication and theater from the National University of Córdoba. Her first novel,
Bad Girls (published as
The Queens of Sarmiento Park in the UK), won the Premio Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro and will be translated into seventeen languages.
I'm a Fool to Want You, from which this story is taken, will be published in spring 2024.
Julian Isaza (b. 1979) is a Colombian writer and journalist. His works of fiction and nonfiction have won national and international prizes. He has published two collections of horror and science fiction stories to date.
Maximiliano Barrientos was born in Santa Cruz de la Sierra, Bolivia, in 1979. He is a teacher and author of the short story collections
Diario (2009),
Fotos tuyas cuando empiezas a envejecer (2011), and
Una casa en llamas (2015), and the novels
Hoteles (2011)--translated into Portuguese--
La desaparición del paisaje (2015),
En el cuerpo una voz (2018), and
Miles de ojos (2021).