Mexican Horror and

Genre:

Horror
Literary fiction
Short story collection-14 short stories in various lengths

Subgenre:

Paranormal
Haunted house/haunted people
Demonic Possession
Pagan occultism
Psychological
Body horror

Setting:

Both rural and urban areas
Caves
Tunnels under the city

Themes:

Doomed romantic relationships

Stories and storytelling

Revisiting the past as adult

Renting apartments

Masturbation

“You want to hear me talk about masturbation rituals? I’ve got a story that might interest you…”

-Demoness

Lose of mind-mental decent to point of insanity and/ or questioning sanity

Circularity of events
Things that happen do not actually occur in a linear manner things that we experience in present aka a dream can have been experienced twice as a dream and

Fate/destiny vs Free win

“It seemed to him that everything he had experienced since then he had experienced since that night, since then, what the consequence of that night, even his choice of career. Maybe that was what was making him panic: not feeling like he was in control of his own destiny. Nothing had happened on its own, it had been caused... He had dared to admit what he already knew: he was just a puppy, and Teresa‘s diabolical theater.

Demoness

Dreams as Memories

”He had seen and touched. A memory now transformed into a recurring dream.”

Truth
Trauma

Note: I received this book as a review copy from Dead Ink Books and at the time I had seen the alternative cover for the book all over social media but didn’t make the connection between the two qnd had never heard of or read the authors previous work. I am so grateful to Dead Ink because this book is now one of my most favourite anthologies ever.
P.P.S. My copy of the book is so well loved and read I need to buy a new one!