In honor of Hispanic Heritage Month, Bookstr is spotlighting some of the best bone-chilling historic horror novels written by Latin American authors.
If you enjoy horror books where the author draws heavily from a specific region that’s faced authoritarianism, colonization, poverty, and violence and turns it into something beautiful and terrifying at the same time, then these books are for you.
• FEVER DREAM by Samanta Schweblin (samschweblin), translated by Megan McDowell (meganamcdowell) | Riverhead Books (riverheadbooks)
• OUR SHARE OF NIGHT by Mariana Enriquez (marianaenriquez1973), translated by Megan McDowell | Hogarth (hogarthbooks)
• JAWBONE by Monica Ojeda (monaojedaf), translated by Sarah Booker | Coffee House Press (coffeehousepress)
• THIRST by Marina Yuszczuk (marinayuszczuk), translated by Heather Cleary (_heathercleary) | Dutton (duttonbooks)
• THROUGH THE NIGHT LIKE A SNAKE: LATIN AMERICAN HORROR STORIES, edited by Sarah Coolidge | Two Lines Press (twolinespress)
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