CRRL Picks: Chills & Thrills from Hispanic Authors
When "The Devil Takes You Home" to "The Hacienda," you know you'll be discovering "Supernatural Enhancements," from hauntings to "The Hollow Ones" to "Vampires of El Norte."
After tragedy destroys the life he knew, Mario, a hitman, agrees to one final job: hijack a cartel’s cash shipment before it reaches Mexico. Along with an old friend and a cartel-insider, Mario sets off on the near-suicidal mission, which…
When handsome Don Rodolfo Solórzano proposes, Beatriz ignores the rumors surrounding his first wife’s sudden demise, choosing instead to seize the security that his estate in the countryside provides. But Hacienda San Isidro is nothing…
Alejandra has become a woman struggling with a darkness that threatens to consume her. In times of despair, a ghostly vision appears to her, the apparition of a crying woman in a ragged white gown. When Alejandra finally visits a…
FBI Agent Odessa Hardwicke's life is derailed when she's forced to turn her gun on her partner who turns suddenly, inexplicably violent while apprehending a murderer. What most troubles Odessa isn't the tragedy itself - it's the shadowy…
This National Book Award nominee weaves pop culture references and horror concepts drawn from authors such as Herman Melville, H. P. Lovecraft, and anonymous online stories from the web form “creepypastas,” "Jawbone" is an ominous novel…
Devastated by the loss of their wife and mother, a young father and son set off on a road trip to her ancestral home where they encounter the Order, a family obsessed with the search for immortality. For Gasper, the son, the cult is his…
Carmen Sanchez is in Mexico, supervising the renovation of an ancient abbey. Her young daughters join her in what Carmen hopes is a chance for them to connect with their roots. When an accident at the worksite unearths a stash of rare,…
Sound editor Montserrat is talented, but is a woman in a man's industry in 1990s Mexico City. To add to her career struggle, she is unrequited in the love she feels for her best friend Tristán, a popular soap opera star. But then Tristán…
Months after the last of the Wells family jumps out of his bedroom window in Axton House, two odd Europeans arrive in Virginia to take possession of the estate. Told through journal entries, we discover that "A." is the 23-year-old Wells…
Nena - daughter of a rancher in 1840s Mexico - realizes something sinister lurks near the ranch at night, something that drains men of their blood. She believes it's the same terror that attacked her nine years ago. Nena's childhood…
