New Latino anthology of horror stories draws its fright from folklore
Chicago-based horror novelist Cynthia Pelayo has released a new anthology titled 'Something Followed Us Home,' featuring 17 short stories by Latin American authors based on folklore.
What keeps you up at night?Is it politics? Money? Climate change? Maybe it’s something more obviously sinister, like murderers and ghosts?Cynthia Pelayo, a Bram Stoker Award-winning horror novelist from Chicago, asked herself and 16 fellow Latin American authors — living both outside and within the borders of the U.S. — to reflect on that question for a new anthology released this week titled “Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror.”In “Something Followed Us Home,” 17 short stories…
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