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Scares for National Hispanic Heritage Month

About Blog Post Oct 7, 2024 by SCLSNJ Staff
Scares for National Hispanic Heritage Month Created by Bob Helmbrecht, collection development librarian So, you have a dilemma... It's National Hispanic Heritage Month, so you'd like to read some books by Hispanic American authors. It's also October, though, and you want to read some horror. Fortunately, you don't have to decide! There are plenty of great horror books by these authors in the Library's collections. Here are a few to get you started.
A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her family history in this ravishing and provocative horror novel.
Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. She bends genres to shape startling stories that map the realities of women's lives and the violence visited upon their bodies.
In this stunningly visceral novel, a group of young men seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered in a Puerto Rican slum; "Stand by Me" with a haunted, obsidian-dark heart. 
"One Hundred Years of Solitude" meets "Practical Magic," following three cousins who retrace their family lineage from Four Rivers, USA, to Guayaquil, Ecuador, in an attempt to discover the source of their power and why their family is being murdered by an unknown entity.
This riveting collection of horror stories-and four poems-contains a wide range of styles, themes and authors. Creepy creatures roam the pages, including La Llorona and the Chupacabras in fresh takes on Latin American lore, as well as ghosts, zombies and shadow selves. 
A gorgeously written family saga about a Puerto Rican woman who finds herself gifted (or cursed?) with a strange ability.
When the US attacks Mexico in 1846, Nena, a healer striving to prove her worth, and Néstor, a member of the auxiliary cavalry of ranchers and vaqueros, find their reunion overshadowed by the appearance of a nightmare made flesh.
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