Cynthia Pelayo

Sum rgete en las espeluznantes profundidades del terror latino con Lo que nos sigui a casa, editada por la ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker Cynthia Pelayo. Una antolog a revolucionaria en la que participan Agustina Bazterrica, Isabel Ca as, Mariana Enr quez, Zoraida C rdova y m s, donde cada historia viste la inmigraci n, la colonizaci n, la fe y el folklore, de miedos que heredamos y que nos acompa an a trav s de las fronteras y las generaciones. Lo que nos sigui a casa, editada por la ganadora del Premio Bram Stoker Cynthia Pelayo, es una antolog a revolucionaria del terror latino que abre una puerta imaginaria al mundo ancestral del miedo y los fantasmas culturales. La colecci n incluye el trabajo de aclamados escritores, como Agustina Bazterrica, Isabel Ca as, Mariana Enr quez, Zoraida C rdova, Gerardo S mano C rdova, la propia Pelayo, y muchos m s; cada uno de ellos reinventando el horror a trav s de las lentes de la colonizaci n, la inmigraci n, la fe y el folklore que perdura a lo largo de las generaciones. Las historias que recoge van desde hogares argentinos donde los muertos susurran tras puertas cerradas con llave, a desiertos en los que La Huesera reconstruye sus huesos bajo un sol implacable, a aguas caribe as en las que cruceros placenteros se tornan predatorios, y ciudades en las que el amor y el hambre demon aca comparten cuerpo. Ya sean plegarias susurradas contra demonios, visiones de rebeldes ahorcados que regresan en forma de sombras, o el terror fico hecho de que la propia tierra recuerda la sangre, cada pieza es un testimonio de la resiliencia y el horror asentado en la identidad latina. Lo que nos sigui a casa, es una antolog a de referencia para el terror latino. Estas historias nos recuerdan que el pasado nunca nos abandona, los muertos nunca guardan silencio, y los lugares de los que venimos siempre hallar n el camino de vuelta a nosotros. Dive into the chilling depths of Latin horror with Something Followed Us Home, edited by Bram Stoker Award-winner Cynthia Pelayo, a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations. Something followed us home. It crawled in with our prayers, slipped into our beds, watched from mirrors, waited in water, and learned our names. In these stories, horror does not announce itself. It possesses, feeds, whispers, and waits. Gathering chilling work from some of today's most acclaimed Latin voices, this anthology moves through haunted households, brutal landscapes, sacred spaces turned dangerous, and bodies claimed by forces both ancient and intimate. The dead murmur behind locked doors. Bones rebuild themselves under merciless suns. Love becomes a doorway for demonic hunger. Prayers summon answers that arrive too late...or too fully. Blood, devotion, and memory intertwine as the past presses back with teeth. Something Followed Us Home is a landmark anthology of Latin horror. These stories remind us that the past is never gone, the dead are never silent, and the places we come from will always find their way back to us. Featuring stories by: Agustina Bazterrica, Ann D vila Cardinal, Cynthia Pelayo, Isabel Ca as, Gerardo S mano C rdova, Zoraida C rdova, Mariana Enr quez, Carolina Fl rez-Cerchiaro, Ananda Lima, Xochitl Gonzalez, Leopoldo Go t, Juan Martinez, M nica Ojeda, Daniel J se Older, Lilliam Rivera, Alex Segura, Diana Rodriguez Wallach

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A fabled lost movie. An increasing body count. How much do you risk for art? Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America’s most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand, stranger than his dark make-up and Gothic television set. After Paloma’s husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse on stage at the Chicago Theater, she knows that the only person that can help solve this mystery is Grand. When another body appears at an abandoned historic movie palace the deaths prove to be connected to a silent film, lost to the ages, but somehow at the center of countless tragedies in Chicago. The closer Paloma gets to Grand she discovers that his reach is far greater than her first love, horror movies, and even this film. And she soon becomes trapped between protecting a silent movie that’s contributed to so much death in her city and the life of her young son. With The Shoemaker’s Magician, Cynthia Pelayo continues to establish herself as one of the most powerful voices in riveting, thought-provoking dark fiction.

This horrifying retelling of the Pied Piper fairytale set in present-day Chicago is an edge of your seat, chills up the spine, thrill ride. ? When Detective Lauren Medina sees the calling card at a murder scene in Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood, she knows the Pied Piper has returned. When another teenager is brutally murdered at the same lagoon where her sister’s body was found floating years before, she is certain that the Pied Piper is not just back, he’s looking for payment he’s owed from her. Lauren’s torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a promise she made long ago with her sister’s murderer. She may have to ruin her life by exposing her secrets and lies to stop the Pied Piper before he collects.

The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance—similar to bingo. However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story collection you will find one unique story per card based on a Latin American myth, folklore, superstition, or belief—with a slant towards the paranormal and horrific. In this deck of cards you will find murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls. This collection features creatures and monsters, vampires, werewolves and more. Many of these legends existed long before their European counterparts—passed throughout the Americas via word of mouth, collected just like the tales the Brothers Grimm. These are indeed fairy tales—Latin American fairy tales—but with a horrifying slant.

In Fever Dreams of a Parasite Iniguez weaves haunting tales that traverse worlds both familiar and alien. Paying homage to Lovecraft, Ligotti, and Langan, these cosmic horror, weird fiction, and folk-inspired stories explore tales of outsiders, killers, and tormented souls as they struggle to survive the lurking terrors of a cold and cruel universe. With symbolism and metaphor pulled from his Latino roots, Iniguez cuts deep into the political undercurrent to expose an America rarely presented in fiction. Whether it's the desperation of poverty, the fear of deportation or the countless daily slights endured by immigrants, these tales are about people who are usually overlooked. This fresh perspective is often delivered with a twist that allows us to see the mundane with fresh eyes. Advance Praise"...filled with stories of inequality, toxic masculinity, economic disparities, the weird, the cosmic, the gritty, the visceral, the beautiful and the uncomfortable. Every word and sentence act as fingernails scraping under the skin..."-Ai Jiang, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Linghun"Savage, brutal, harrowing and riveting. Pedro Iniguez has created a nightmare collection of stories filled with unexpected twists, disturbing plots, unforgettable characters and ghastly settings."-Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient"Rites and rituals ancient and modern ensnare even as they liberate. Iniguez's Fever Dreams of a Parasite will infect your soul with no cure in sight."-Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Bram Stoker nominated editor of best-seller Never Whistle at Night"Among a rising tide of excellent contemporary horror, Fever Dreams of a Parasite seized my attention. Watch out for Iniguez." -Laird Barron author of Not a Speck of Light

In Fever Dreams of a Parasite Iniguez weaves haunting tales that traverse worlds both familiar and alien. Paying homage to Lovecraft, Ligotti, and Langan, these cosmic horror, weird fiction, and folk-inspired stories explore tales of outsiders, killers, and tormented souls as they struggle to survive the lurking terrors of a cold and cruel universe. With symbolism and metaphor pulled from his Latino roots, Iniguez cuts deep into the political undercurrent to expose an America rarely presented in fiction. Whether it's the desperation of poverty, the fear of deportation or the countless daily slights endured by immigrants, these tales are about people who are usually overlooked. This fresh perspective is often delivered with a twist that allows us to see the mundane with fresh eyes. Advance Praise"...filled with stories of inequality, toxic masculinity, economic disparities, the weird, the cosmic, the gritty, the visceral, the beautiful and the uncomfortable. Every word and sentence act as fingernails scraping under the skin..."-Ai Jiang, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Linghun"Savage, brutal, harrowing and riveting. Pedro Iniguez has created a nightmare collection of stories filled with unexpected twists, disturbing plots, unforgettable characters and ghastly settings."-Nuzo Onoh, "Queen of African Horror" & Bram Stoker Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient"Rites and rituals ancient and modern ensnare even as they liberate. Iniguez's Fever Dreams of a Parasite will infect your soul with no cure in sight."-Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. Bram Stoker nominated editor of best-seller Never Whistle at Night"Among a rising tide of excellent contemporary horror, Fever Dreams of a Parasite seized my attention. Watch out for Iniguez." -Laird Barron author of Not a Speck of Light

A haunted woman stalked by a serial killer confronts the horrors of fairy tales and the nightmares of real life in a breathtaking novel of psychological suspense by a Bram Stoker Award–winning author. It started the night journalist Briar Thorne’s mother died in their rambling old mansion on Chicago’s South Side. The nightmares of a woman in white pleading to come home, music switched on in locked rooms, and the panicked fear of being swallowed by the dark…Bri has almost convinced herself that these stirrings of dread are simply manifestations of grief and not the beyond-world of ghostly impossibilities her mother believed in. And more tangible terrors still lurk outside the decaying Victorian greystone. A serial killer has claimed the lives of fifty-one women in the Chicago area. When Bri starts researching the murders, she meets a stranger who tells her there’s more to her sleepless nights than bad dreams—they hold the key to putting ghosts to rest and stopping a killer. But the killer has caught on and is closing in, and if Bri doesn’t answer the call of the dead soon, she’ll be walking among them.

A city’s haunted history and fairy-tale horrors converge for two women in an addictive novel of psychological suspense by a multiple Bram Stoker Award–nominated author. Sisters Anna and Jennie live in a historic bungalow on the Chicago River. They’re tethered to a disquieting past, and with nowhere else to go, nothing can part them from their family home. Not the maddening creaks and disembodied voices that rattle the old walls. Not the inexplicable drownings in the area, or the increasing number of bodies that float by Anna’s window. To stave off loneliness, Anna has a podcast, spinning ghostly tales of Chicago’s tragic history. But when Anna captures the attention of an ardent male listener, she awakens to the possibilities of a world outside. As their relationship grows, so do Jennie’s fears. More and more people are going missing in the river. And then two detectives come calling. They’re looking for a link between the mysteries of the river and what’s housed on the bank. Even Anna and Jennie don’t understand how dreadful it is—and still can be—when the truth about their unsettled lives begins to surface.

A fabled lost movie. An increasing body count. How much do you risk for art? Paloma has been watching the Grand Vespertilio Show her entire life. Grand, America's most beloved horror host showcases classic, low-budget and cult horror movies with a flourish, wearing his black tuxedo and hat, but Paloma has noticed something strange about Grand, stranger than his dark make-up and Gothic television set. After Paloma's husband, a homicide detective, discovers an obscure movie poster pinned on a mutilated corpse on stage at the Chicago Theater, she knows that the only person that can help solve this mystery is Grand. When another body appears at an abandoned historic movie palace the deaths prove to be connected to a silent film, lost to the ages, but somehow at the center of countless tragedies in Chicago. The closer Paloma gets to Grand she discovers that his reach is far greater than her first love, horror movies, and even this film. And she soon becomes trapped between protecting a silent movie that's contributed to so much death in her city and the life of her young son.

Award-winning author Cynthia "Cina" Pelayo's acclaimed short story collection Loter a, now with added illustrations and new bonus stories...as well as an exclusive preview for her upcoming sequel to CHILDREN OF CHICAGO, THE SHOEMAKER'S MAGICIAN (out this Spring). The Mexican board game of Loter a is a game of chance--similar to bingo. However, in Loter a instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Loter a game, and for this short story collection you will find one unique story per card based on a Latin American myth, folklore, superstition, or belief--with a slant towards the paranormal and horrific. In this deck of cards you will find murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls. This collection features creatures and monsters, vampires, werewolves and more. Many of these legends existed long before their European counterparts--passed throughout the Americas via word of mouth, collected just like the tales the Brothers Grimm. These are indeed fairy tales--Latin American fairy tales--but with a horrifying slant.

Writing Poetry in the Dark brings together some of the most successful contemporary genre poets to discuss topics related to creating dark and fantastical poetry. While there are countless books available for the aspiring poet, there is a lack of resources specifically for and on speculative poetry, and with the market thriving, publishers who previously did not put out poetry are now adding it to their catalogs, requesting it for their anthologies, and seeking it for their magazines. Given these factors, it seemed like the perfect time to put together a guide for dark poets that addresses some of the unique challenges they face, such as creating monsters out of white space, writing the hybrid poem, or subverting folklore in the retelling of a classic tale. Included in Writing Poetry in the Dark are recommendations on how to bring fear to the page, write from the wound, let violence loose, channel the weird, and tackle the dark side of daily life. There are also practical suggestions for exploring different poetic forms and topics ranging from building worlds, writing from different points of view, and exploring gender and sexuality on the page. This book will bring something different to every speculative writer who is interested in exploring poetry with a genre twist, and it is our hope that this book will help poetry itself continue to evolve, grow, and redefine itself in the market for many years to come. Essays by These Accomplished & Award-winning PoetsF. J. Bergmann, Linda D. Addison, Christina Sng, Lucy A. Snyder, Jim & Janice Leach, Timons Esaias, Albert Wendland, Jeannine Hall Gailey, Michael Arnzen, Alessandro Manzetti, Cynthia Pelayo, Bryan Thao Worra, Saba Syed Razvi, PhD, Carina Bissett, Joanna C. Valente, Leza Cantoral, Sara Tantlinger, Marge Simon, Claire C. Holland, Jessica McHugh, Donna Lynch

Cynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than the world, her siren song insinuates itself past our defenses, past the hardened calluses and apathy we've erected to protect ourselves from the everyday horror of another missing girl. Pelayo relates the familiar story, poem by poem; a body is found, a brutal crime investigated, clues take us in circles, and lead us nowhere. We are on an epic journey, the hero's journey, and it must play out to the end in all its painful, ticking moments. Pelayo imbues her hero, Agent K, with the entirety of our dedication and that crumb of hope we've been hiding, saving for later. We will need to save for years, for decades, if we want to come out the other side. The job takes its toll, the answers are never complete and whys fracture, crack and spread. Still there is no turning away. We must bear witness, though it changes and contorts us.

Cynthia Pelayo sings a song for the least of us, the victim we want to forget as soon as possible, the one who disappeared before ever really appearing. With a fairy tale gaze and a heart bigger than the world, her siren song insinuates itself past our defenses, past the hardened calluses and apathy we've erected to protect ourselves from the everyday horror of another missing girl. Pelayo relates the familiar story, poem by poem; a body is found, a brutal crime investigated, clues take us in circles, and lead us nowhere. We are on an epic journey, the hero's journey, and it must play out to the end in all its painful, ticking moments. Pelayo imbues her hero, Agent K, with the entirety of our dedication and that crumb of hope we've been hiding, saving for later. We will need to save for years, for decades, if we want to come out the other side. The job takes its toll, the answers are never complete and whys fracture, crack and spread. Still there is no turning away. We must bear witness, though it changes and contorts us." In Crime Scene, Cynthia Pelayo dips her quill in a secret wound of pain that not all writers are brave enough to explore. Unflinching and raw, Crime Scene is a harrowing exploration of human suffering and firmly establishes Pelayo as one of the most exciting and original poets working today." -Eric LaRocca, author of Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke and Other Misfortunes"Crime Scene is a held breath without release or escape. Pelayo dissects our grimmest cultural obsessions and aims an unrelenting microscope at our tragedies and sins. There is lightning beneath this book's skin. Harrowing to the last." -Hailey Piper, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Queen of Teeth"Just read Cynthia Pelayo's Crime Scene in one sitting. This book rips true crime away from the fabulists and, with all the shock of a blood spatter, brings it back to the stark, lonely dead end it has always been."-Daniel Kraus, The Ghost That Ate Us"Few poets dig so deep into the dark heart of human suffering as Cynthia Pelayo, and I can think of no better example of her lyrical fearlessness than the epic narrative poem that is Crime Scene. Raw and uncompromising, Pelayo is, quite simply, one of the best and most important writers in the business." -Kealan Patrick Burke, Bram Stoker Award-winning author of Sour Candy." Pelayo's Crime Scene is undoubtedly the Odyssey of crime literature. Each poem unveils the darkest parts of human existence while seeking to understand the reasons behind those most evil impulses. The result is a beautiful, heartbreaking reckoning that lingers long after reading the final passage." -Heather Levy, author of the Anthony nominated Walking Through Needles.

2021 BRAM STOKER AWARD NOMINEE FOR SUPERIOR ACHIEVEMENT IN A NOVEL2021 INTERNATIONAL LATINO BOOK AWARD WINNER"GUARANTEED TO MAKE YOUR HEART THUMP AND SKIN CRAWL”—The New York TimesA gripping, modern-day spin on the Pied Piper fairy tale, as well as a gritty love letter to the underworld of Chicago from acclaimed Bram Stoker nominee Cynthia Pelayo. Reminiscent of the Bloody Mary urban legend, the Pied Piper’s story can be tracked back to the deaths of children for centuries and across the world—call to him for help with your problems, but beware when he comes back asking for payment. Chicago detective Lauren Medina’s latest call brings her to investigate a brutally murdered teenager in Humboldt Park—a crime eerily similar to the murder of her sister decades before. Unlike her straight-laced partner, she recognizes the crime, and the new graffiti popping up all over the city, for what it really means: the Pied Piper has returned. When more children are found dead, Lauren is certain her suspicion is correct. Still reeling from the recent death of her father, she knows she must find out who has summoned him again, and why, before more people die. Lauren’s torn between protecting the city she has sworn to keep safe, and keeping a promise she made long ago with her sister’s murderer. She may have to ruin her life by exposing her secrets and lies to stop the Pied Piper before he collects.