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. (34)
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Nineteen Claws and a Black Bird by Agustina Bazterrica EN
Country: South America / 
Argentina
Argentina
Description:
"From celebrated author Agustina Bazterrica, this collection of nineteen brutal, darkly funny short stories takes into our deepest fears and through our most disturbing fantasies. Through stories about violence, alienation, and dystopia, Bazterrica's vision of the human experience emerges in complex, unexpected ways--often unsettling, sometimes thrilling, and always profound. In "Roberto," a girl claims to have a rabbit between her legs. A woman's neighbor jumps to his death in "A Light, Swift, and Monstrous Sound," and in "Candy Pink," a woman fails to contend with a difficult breakup in five... continue
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No Place to Bury the Dead by Karina Sainz Borgo EN
Country: South America / 
Venezuela
Venezuela
Description:
"[A] rich and lyrical tale of desperation and redemption . . . Throughout, Sainz Borgo applies stark poetry to the terrifying setting, where 'moans and cries attributed to ghosts sometimes masked executions and beatings.' It's a stunner." --Publishers Weekly (starred review) "[A] deeply felt meditation on migration, mourning and the simultaneous entanglement and estrangement of the living and the dead" --Los Angeles Times Winner of the 2023 Jan Michalski Prize, a searing novel of loss and resilience that illuminates the often-overlooked human dimension of the migrant crisis, re-imagining the b... continue
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Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post “An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice) ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK One of Reactor Magazine’s Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by th... continue
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Para hechizar a un Cazador by Luciano Lamberti ES
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Julia escucha en un bar a una vieja que la abordó en la calle y dice ser su abuela. Siempre tuvo dudas sobre su propio origen y Griselda ahora le revela su verdadera historia. Muy pronto entenderá que detrás de esa apacible anciana hay más de lo que dice. Los lectores, con ella, empezarán una inmersión sin pausa en un territorio de horror multiforme que, en la repetición de la tortura y la muerte, replica los gestos sangrientos de la dictadura militar. Una trama labrada con excelencia que repasa los años 60 y 70 con los recursos del terro... continue
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Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore. His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing. Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest q... continue
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The Dangers of Smoking in Bed by Mariana Enriquez EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
A masterpiece of contemporary Gothic from the internationally acclaimed author of Things We Lost in the Fire.
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The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga EN
Country: South America / 
Uruguay
Uruguay
Description:
From the Publisher: Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American storyteller Horacio Quiroga. The first representative collection of his work in English, The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories provides a valuable overview of the scope of Quiroga's fiction and the versatility and skill that have made him a classic Latin American writer.
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The Obscene Bird of Night : Unabridged, Centennial Edition by José Donoso EN
Country: South America / 
Chile
Chile
Description:
Newly revised and updated by Megan McDowell, and with a new introduction by Alejandro Zambra: at last, the unabridged, centennial edition of Donoso's terrifying masterpiece sees the light of day
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The Unworthy by Agustina Bazterrica EN
Country: South America / Argentina
Argentina
Description:
The long-awaited new novel from the author of global sensation Tender Is the Flesh: a thrilling work of literary horror about a woman cloistered in a secretive, violent religious order, while outside the world has fallen into chaos. From her cell in a mysterious convent, a woman writes the story of her life in whatever she can find—discarded ink, dirt, and even her own blood. A lower member of the Sacred Sisterhood, deemed an unworthy, she dreams of ascending to the ranks of the Enlightened at the center of the convent and of pleasing the foreboding Superior Sister. Outside, the world is plagu... continue