Anyone who dares to delve into the pages of this book will feel a chill running down their spine, and more. These are twelve horror stories, twelve tales about horror: about the evil that lurks and the monsters that suddenly appear in the most everyday reality, in large cities or small remote towns.

In one of the stories, a woman keeps at bay the ghosts roaming a peripheral neighborhood of Buenos Aires; among them, those of her mother who died from a painful illness, those of teenage girls murdered on the street, that of a thief caught in the act, and that of a boy fleeing a quick kidnapping. In another story, a couple rents a house for a vacation in a town that has been losing inhabitants since the train stopped running; they visit the exhibition of disturbing paintings by a local artist at the abandoned station, but the truly terrifying thing will be meeting the author of those paintings. In another piece, volunteers from an NGO distributing food in slum neighborhoods are chased by children with terrifying black eyes. In another, a journalist investigating the story of a girl who disappeared in a hotel in Los Angeles, whose chilling images circulated on the internet, ends up confronting another city legend…

After her monumental and acclaimed novel Nuestra parte de noche, Mariana Enriquez returns to the short story and proves she is still in great form as a major successor and innovator of the horror genre, which she has elevated to the highest literary levels. Drawing from tradition—from gothic novels to Stephen King and Thomas Ligotti—the writer explores new paths, new dimensions.