Qué Horror: Eight Dark Tales from Spanish-Speaking Voices

In under 200 pages, Agustina Bazterrica gives us a harrowing look at a dystopian future through an unforgettable heroine. Cults, climate crises and extremism collide in this razor-sharp story. 

After a deadly plague, Alba and her family flee to an isolated Mexican silver mine for safety. But strange and unsettling occurrences begin to take place, and soon a sinister presence sinks its teeth into Alba in this Gothic mystery filled with tense longing.

When young Santiago dies, his mother attempts the impossible—bringing him back to life. What she creates is Monstrilio, a strange and haunting being that embodies both her love and her loss. In his dazzling debut, Gerardo Sámano Córdova delivers a bold meditation on grief, family and the blurred line between monstrosity and humanity.  

This slow-burning, multigenerational tale of witchcraft and obsession follows three women across time, where academic research, family secrets, and haunting encounters intertwine, threatening to consume all who dare uncover them.   

A father, drowning in debt and grief, takes one last job hijacking a cartel shipment—only to be pulled into a nightmarish journey of violence and the supernatural across Texas and Mexico. Brutal, poetic and unforgettable, Iglesia’s story cements him as one of today’s most boundary-breaking voices in horror. 

When a grieving father and son return to their ancestral home, they uncover a terrifying legacy of occult rituals and a secretive family obsessed with immortality. Moving across decades and continents, this haunting novel blends family drama, political violence and supernatural horror into a dark epic of love and the inescapable pull of the night. 

Steeped in Latin American folklore and mythology, Cynthia Pelayo’s collection of short stories is packed with everything from the spooky to the scary. If you enjoyed Pelayo’s Children of Chicago, this is the next logical step for you. 

Blending Mexican folklore with Gothic terror, this collection of stories plunges readers into a world where lust and violence intertwine. From carnivorous creatures to spectral lovers, Castro crafts a slow, sensual descent into horror, proving that desire can be as dangerous as death itself.