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Dark, hypnotic tales from Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Isabel Cañas, and more.
Source: publishersweekly.
As Halloween season dawns, so does our ravenous appetite for dark, hypnotic tales. Even better if those tales are crafted by bestselling authors like Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Isabel Cañas, and stocked to the brim with epic settings and deeply haunted characters. Yes, we’re talking not only about scary stories, but about sagas of the macabre and the gothic. Not to mention that each of these tales is carefully imbued with a sense of history, culture, and place. Take our hand and listen to clips from the audiobooks below…you never know what you may find waiting for you.
From 1900s Mexico to 1990s Massachusetts, 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. Narrated by Gisela Chipe.
A debut Gothic horror set in 1870s Brazil—a tale of creeping suspense in which a young pregnant woman finds herself unable to escape her lover’s isolated family home, and a family’s deal with the devil goes terribly wrong.
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize and read by award-winning narrator Frankie Corzo, Mayra is a mezmerizing debut about friendship, desire, and memory set against the sultry backdrop of Florida’s swamplands.
Master of gothic stories Isabel Cañas’s young adult debut The House of Gardenias drops on September 29th! Don’t miss this dual narrated tale that #1 bestselling author Marissa Meyer calls “gothic storytelling with teeth: a lyrical and devastating tale of one maid caught in a spiderweb of loyalty, courage, revolution, and monsters both dead and alive.”
And of course, let’s not forget Cañas’s deliciously dark adult novels: The Possession of Alba Díaz, The Hacienda, and Vampires of El Norte; if you haven’t walked those halls already, now is the time.
As death stalks a gothic mansion in Miami, the lives of two women intertwine as the past and present collide in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton’s atmospheric novel. Read by Caroline Hewitt and Frankie Corzo.
A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in this first novel to be translated into English by Mariana Enriquez, the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Hear the audio edition of this literary horror epic the New York Times calls “an enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.” Read by Frankie Corzo.
In The Haunting of Alejandra, a woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona. In Immortal Pleasures, an ancient Aztec vampire roams the modern world in search of vengeance and love. You simply can’t go wrong with the tales of V. Castro.
With echoes of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Thirst plays with the boundaries of the Gothic genre while exploring the limits of female agency, all-consuming desire, and the fragile vitality of even the most immortal of creatures. Read by Maria Liatis.
In this sinister, slow-burn novel of supernatural suspense with a bit of modern gothic, a young woman gets her dream job working for a famous designer—and discovers the dark side of high-stakes fashion.
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