Through the Night Like a Snake
Latin American Horror Stories
Published on 12. March 2024
Book
Paperback/Softback
232 pages
978-1-949641-57-8 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 174 mm
Width: 150 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-949641-57-8 (9781949641578)
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Persons
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.