Popular South American Horror Books
Find horror books written by authors from South America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (21)
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A Sunny Place for Shady People : Stories by Mariana Enriquez EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “one of Latin America’s most exciting authors” (Silvia Moreno-Garcia) “Horror has found its master.”—Joy Williams “A collection of brilliant nightmares.”—Paul Tremblay “First-rate literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) One of the Most Anticipated Books of the Fall: Reactor, Publishers Weekly, Lit Hub On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all t... continue
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Cometierra by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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Eartheater by Dolores Reyes ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Electrifying and provocative, visceral and profound, a powerful literary debut novel about a young woman whose compulsion to eat earth gives her visions of murdered and missing people--an imaginative synthesis of mystery and magical realism that explores the dark tragedies of ordinary lives. Set in an unnamed slum in contemporary Argentina, Earth-eater is the story of a young woman who finds herself drawn to eating the earth--a compulsion that gives her visions of broken and lost lives. With her first taste of dirt, she learns the horrifying truth of her mother's death. Disturbed by what she w... continue
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Fresh Dirt from the Grave by Giovanna Rivero EN
Country: South America / 
Bolivia
Bolivia
Description:
Shipwrecks, dive bars, possession, and science—this is where contemporary horrors and ancient terrors meet. In Fresh Dirt from the Grave , a hillside is “an emerald saddle teeming with evil and beauty.” It is this collision of harshness and tenderness that animates Giovanna Rivero’s short stories, where no degree of darkness (buried bodies, lost children, wild paroxysms of violence) can take away from the gentleness she shows all violated creatures. A mad aunt haunts her family, two Bolivian children are left on the outskirts of a Metis reservation outside Winnipeg, a widow teaches origami in ... continue
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Hundert Augen by Samanta Schweblin DE
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Sie haben Häuser in Hongkong infiltriert, Geschäfte in Vancouver, die Straßen Sierra Leones, Marktplätze in Oaxaca, Schulen in Tel Aviv, Schlafzimmer in Indiana. Sie sind überall. Sie sind hier. Sie sind wir. Sie sind keine Haustiere, Geister oder Roboter. Sie sind wirkliche Menschen. Aber wie kann sich jemand, der in Berlin ist, frei durch ein Wohnzimmer in Sydney bewegen? Und wie kann jemand in Bangkok mit deinen Kindern in Buenos Aires frühstücken, ohne dass du davon weißt? Besonders wenn diese Person komplett anonym ist, unbekannt und unauffindbar? Samanta Schweblin erzählt vom Vertrauen i... continue
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Jantar secreto by Raphael Montes PT
Country: South America / 
Brazil
Brazil
Description:
Um grupo de jovens deixa uma pequena cidade no Paraná para viver no Rio de Janeiro. Eles alugam um apartamento em Copacabana e fazem o possível para pagar a faculdade e manter vivos seus sonhos de sucesso na capital fluminense. Mas o dinheiro está curto e o aluguel está vencido. Para sair do buraco e manter o apartamento, os amigos adotam uma estratégia heterodoxa: arrecadar fundos por meio de jantares secretos, divulgados pela internet para uma clientela exclusiva da elite carioca. No cardápio: carne humana. A partir daí, eles se envolvem numa ... continue
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Country: South America / 
Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from Opus Dei Delta Academy for Girls convene after school, Annelise always spins the scariest stories and devises the riskiest games. Wearing her crocodile-jawbone crown, she leads them in rituals to her invented god: the rhinestone-encrusted firefly, the wandering womb... continue
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Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
"Was desire something like being possessed by a nightmare?" Fernanda and Annelise are so close they are practically sisters: a double image, inseparable. So how does Fernanda end up bound on the floor of an abandoned cabin, kidnapped by one of her teachers and estranged from Annelise? When Fernanda, Annelise, and their friends from Opus Dei Delta Academy for Girls convene after school, Annelise always spins the scariest stories and devises the riskiest games. Wearing her crocodile-jawbone crown, she leads them in rituals to her invented god: the rhinestone-encrusted firefly, the wandering womb... continue
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Las voladoras by Mónica Ojeda PT
Country: South America / Ecuador
Ecuador
Description:
Mónica Ojeda tem sido reconhecida por seu modo peculiar de narrar o horror. Nesse sentido, em entrevista à jornalista Andrea Aguilar para o El país, a autora defende: a geografia determina a forma como se vê e como se conta o mundo. Este conjunto de oito contos parte da geografia avassaladora dos Andes equatorianos e aborda, impiedosamente, questões que passam pelas relações de amizade, de vizinhança e familiares em geral, atravessadas por elementos como a sexualidade, a violência, a dor, a vida e a morte. Em Voladoras , encontramos criaturas que sobem nos telhados de suas casas e voam, terrem... continue
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Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A visionary novel about the collision of technology and play, horror and humanity, from a master of the spine-tingling tale. They've infiltrated homes in Hong Kong, shops in Vancouver, the streets of Senegal, town squares of Oaxaca, schools in Tel Aviv, bedrooms in Ohio. They're following you. They're everywhere now. They're us. In Samanta Schweblin's wildly imaginative new novel, Little Eyes, "kentukis" have gone viral across the globe. They're little mechanical stuffed animals that have cameras for eyes, wheels for feet, and are connected to an anonymous global server. Owners of kentukis hav... continue