Books like The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
Twelve horror stories from Argentina where the dead don't stay dead, children vanish on purpose, and the gothic lurks in everyday Buenos Aires.
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Things We Lost in the Fire
Twelve stories set in and around Buenos Aires, where the disappeared of the dictatorship, abandoned houses, slum children and women who set themselves on fire make up a city that is haunted in plain sight.
Thin Places
Chronister's first collection of dark fables, in which women and girls find the borders between the ordinary world and the other one wearing thin.
Tender Is the Flesh
In a world where a virus has made all animals toxic, a slaughterhouse worker processes the only remaining meat source: humans bred for consumption.
The Bog Wife
For generations the Haddesleys of West Virginia have buried their patriarch in the bog in exchange for a wife to carry on the line. When their father dies and no bride rises for the eldest son, his siblings start to come apart.
Our Share of Night
A boy is chosen by a secret society that harvests children's pain, and the horror spans decades and continents in this sprawling Argentine gothic.
Through the Woods
Five gothic, fairy-tale horror stories in comics form, a new bride in a house with a secret, sisters waiting for a father who does not come home, drawn in Carroll's luminous, blood-red palette.
Cursed Bunny
Korean stories that mix folklore, body horror and capitalist dread: a cursed lamp shaped like a rabbit, a head that rises out of a toilet, a woman whose body turns strange, all told with a sly, deadpan cruelty.
Fever Dream
Amanda lies dying in a rural clinic while a boy named David presses her to remember what happened on her holiday in the Argentine countryside with her daughter, and what poisoned them.
Pet Sematary
Doctor Louis Creed moves his family to rural Maine, where an old neighbour shows him the burial ground beyond the pet cemetery behind their house, a place that can bring the dead back, though not as they were.
Salt Slow
Nine stories of bodies changing in strange ways, from a girl whose skin begins to peel away to a city where people's sleep wanders off without them.
Homesick for Another World
Stories of deeply unlovable Americans examining their own decay with uncomfortable clarity.
Sister Creatures
Young women from Pinecreek, an isolated Louisiana town, try to outrun its damage in Munich, Baltimore and New York, and a shapeshifting presence that first surfaces in a stolen doll follows them wherever they go.