Horror Mexico

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “It’s Lovecraft meets the Brontës in Latin America, and after a slow-burn start Mexican Gothic gets seriously weird.”—The Guardian ONE OF TIME’S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME WINNER OF THE LOCUS AWARD NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM...

RC Sandoval has faced monsters, killers, and the ghosts of his own past — but nothing in his life prepared him for what waits in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. When a legendary lost treasure resurfaces, RC is pulled into a deadly hunt that cuts through abandoned mining camps, cartel‑scarred borderlands, and the haunted high country where the land itself feels alive… and hungry. What starts as a search for answers becomes a fight for survival against a creature born of frontier violence, starvation, and the unforgiving mountains. As bodies fall and old wounds reopen, RC must rely on ...

A family curse. A frontier reckoning. And a darkness that remembers every sin. RC Sandoval didn’t return to Clayton, New Mexico, looking for redemption. After the divorce and the war, he wanted quiet. But when his estranged father dies, RC inherits the remote high‑desert ranch he grew up on—and the secrets buried beneath it. Something is wrong on the land. Cattle won’t settle. Tracks appear where nothing should walk. Shadows move with intent. And when bodies begin turning up—torn apart in ways no predator could manage—RC realizes the past he tried to escape has teeth. Something ...

What if the whispers you hear on the wind are real? In the shadows of modern Mexico, ancient legends are not dead. They wait on lonely highways, they cry from the riverbanks, and they watch with unblinking eyes from a haunted island. This is a land where a deal with a handsome stranger in black can cost you your soul, where the starched uniform of a ghostly nurse still rustles in hospital hallways, and where the thing that hunts your livestock is not from this world. Urban Legends from Mexico is a curated collection of thirteen of the country's most terrifying folk tales, masterfully retold...

From #1 bestselling authors Preston & Child comes a thrilling novel following archaeologist Nora Kelly and FBI Agent Corrie Swanson as they work together to solve a twisted crime that reaches far beyond any of their worst fears. Following the acclaimed debut of Old Bones, this second "happily...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic. “In Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s sure hands, every uncovered secret...

“Beautifully written—menace drips from every page.” —Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author A “gripping and terrifying story…and one not to be missed” (Robert McCammon) from the acclaimed author of The Troop and The Deep! A trio of mismatched mercenaries—Micah Shughrue...

Shadow Altars: Urban Legends from Mexico City and the Ancient Pathways is not a collection of ghost stories. It is a map of fear as it actually operates. Across canals, hospitals, cemeteries, convent ruins, mountain roads, and narrow city streets, Mexican urban legends have long functioned as informal warning systems—quiet instructions about where not to go, when not to linger, and which offers should never be accepted. These stories do not demand belief. They demand attention. From La Llorona’s inverted cry to the sealed grave of El Vampiro de Jalisco, from institutional apparitions ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face. . . . Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of Mexican Gothic and Velvet Was the Night comes a lavish historical drama reimagining of The Island of Doctor Moreau set against the backdrop of nineteenth-century Mexico. “This is historical science fiction at its best: a dreamy...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic comes a fabulous meld of Mexican horror movies and Nazi occultism: a dark thriller about the curse that haunts a legendary lost film—and awakens one woman’s hidden powers. “No one punctures the...

A horror-infused, polyphonic work about the violence and cruelty seething in a late-seventies Guadalajara neighborhood At a traveling fair, a young girl visiting with her family will ask a "serpent woman" to tell her future. The serpent woman's answer is cryptic, but back in their neighborhood...

narra la expedición desastrosa que realizan unos grupo de expertos a la Antártida, en el que descubren unos seres biológicamente extraordinarios que llegaron a la tierra desde otro astro mucho antes de la aparición de la humanidad, y que fueron casi extinguidos por una especie de robots de su propia creación.

A threatened mother and relentless detective collide in this mesmerizing novel from a rising voice in literary horror, perfect for fans of Gabino Iglesias, Carmen Maria Machado, Augustina Bazterrica, and Stephen Graham Jones. A mother’s love is the oldest curse Fortuna Miércoles has finally...

. Obsesionado con traspasar los límites de la ciencia, el inquieto y entusiasta científico Victor Frankenstein logra dar forma y vida a un ser construido a partir de restos humanos. Sin embargo, su hazaña se convierte de inmediato en horror: incapaz de soportar su fealdad antinatural, rechaza...

Some people say that it’s a demon-haunted world. That certainly is true in Gus’s county around Halloween, mostly due to the digital demons plaguing Gus this year that live inside the new Pakiman game. There’s also a fancy Halloween party to deal with, to which everyone who is someone is invited—and that includes Gus. If getting a costume for a party he doesn’t want to go to was his worst problem, it would be a fun holiday season. Unfortunately, someone keels over dead in the free-cheese section of Fit Foods, and that opens the door to murder. That open door leads Gus right into ...

Saddle up and hold on tight When reality TV producer Jake Huntington hires Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit to scout a chilling episode of Cryptid Hunter, Buck dives into a mystery swirling around an alien spacecraft in the enchanted high desert west of Taos, New Mexico. Beneath the watchful Sangre de Cristo Mountains, where ancient secrets hum in the twilight, Buck’s investigation weaves through cultural wisdom and spiritual revelations. He crosses paths with Elena Tafoya, a wise American Indian spiritual guide, and Kelli O’Malley, an internationally acclaimed artist whose ...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton offers a sexy, suspenseful novel of human—and inhuman—passions, as vampire hunter Anita Blake must repay a favor to a man almost as dangerous as the ancient evil she's about to face... Edward is a hit man, specializing in monsters...

THE ISLAND OF THE DOLLS SUMMARY "What began as a tribute to a drowned girl transformed into a nightmare for Don Julian Santana Barrera, leading to a watery grave that mirrored the tragedy he spent his life obsessing over." Inspired by Don Julian Santana Barrera's story... For over half a century, Don Julian Santana Barrera lived as a hermit on a remote island in the canals of Xochimilco, haunted by the memory of a young girl he discovered drowned in the murky shallows. Driven by a desperate need to appease her restless spirit, he began scouring the local trash and canals to collect ...

The earthquake lasts less than a minute. What it wakes up will not stop for anyone. When the ground splits open south of Fort Carver, it doesn't just crack the earth. It breaks a seal nobody in the New Mexico Territory knew existed. What comes out of that canyon doesn't hunt like anything Caleb Holt has ever tracked, and he has spent three years tracking a man who murdered his family across two territories without stopping once. Caleb rides into the wreckage of Fort Carver looking for one man. He finds a fort already dying: a frontier doctor carrying more guilt than medicine, a woman ...