Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories - Paperback

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Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories

Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories - Paperback

by Mónica Ojeda , Tomás Downey
$16.95
Sale price  $16.95 Regular price 

Book Overview

A boy explores the abandoned house of a dead fascist...
A leaked sex tape pushes a woman to the brink...
A sex worker discovers a dark secret among the nuns of the pampas...
The mountain fog is not what it seems...
Kermit the Frog dreams of murder...

In ten chilling stories from an ensemble cast of contemporary Latin American writers, including Mariana Enriquez (tr. Megan McDowell), Camila Sosa Villlada (tr. Kit Maude), Claudia Hernández (tr. by Julia Sanches and Johanna Warren) and Mónica Ojeda (tr. Sarah Booker and Noelle de la Paz), horror infiltrates the unexpected, taboo regions of the present-day psyche.

ISBN9781949641578
Author Mónica Ojeda , Tomás Downey
PublisherTwo Lines Press
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 2024
LanguageENG- English
Pages232
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Mónica Ojeda
Mónica Ojeda is the author of the novels La desfiguración Silva, Nefando, and Mandíbula (published in English as Jawbone), as well as the poetry collections El ciclo de las piedras and Historia de la leche. Her stories have been published in the anthology Emergencias: Doce cuentos iberoamericanos and the collections Caninos and Las voladoras. In 2017, she was included on the Bógota39 list of the best thirty-nine Latin American writers under forty, and in 2019, she received the Prince Claus Next Generation Award in honor of her outstanding literary achievements.
About Tomás Downey
Tomás Downey is a translator, screenwriter, and the author of three short story collections: Acá el tiempo es otra cosa (2015), El lugar donde mueren los pájaros (2017), and Flores que se abren de noche (2021). He teaches creative writing. His work has received numerous grants and awards. His stories have been translated into Italian and English, and have appeared in magazines such as The Offing and The Common, and in the anthology Through the Night Like a Snake: Latin American Horror Stories (Two Lines Press). His first novel, López López, will be released by Editorial Fiordo in 2025. He was born in 1984 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he lives.Sarah Moses is a writer and translator from Spanish and French. Her translations include Tender Is the Flesh and The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica, and Die, My Love by Ariana Harwicz, which was longlisted for the International Booker Prize, among other awards. Her collection of short fiction, Strange Water, was published in the fall of 2024. Sarah lives in Buenos Aires and Toronto, where she's from.

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