The debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night.
'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror... You [will] return home looking pale and haunted' Observer
Sleep-deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp-toothed children and stolen skulls; persecuted young women drawn to self-immolation. Organized crime sits side-by-side with the occult in Buenos Aires - a place where reality and the supernatural fuse into strange, new shapes.
These acclaimed gothic tales follow the wayward and downtrodden, revealing the scars of Argentina's dictatorship and the ghosts and traumas that have settled in the minds of its people. Provocative, brutal and uncanny,
Product details
ASIN : 1846276365
Publisher : Granta Books; 1st edition (4 Oct. 2018)
Language : English
Paperback : 208 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781846276361
ISBN-13 : 978-1846276361
Dimensions : 12.9 x 1.12 x 19.81 cm
Best Sellers Rank: 33,392 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
97 in Horror Short Stories (Books)
371 in Contemporary Horror
520 in Occult Horror (Books)
Customer reviews: 4.3
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