Something Followed Us Home

Tales of Latiné Horror

About The Book

Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with Something Followed Us Home, edited by Bram Stoker Award–winner Cynthia Pelayo, a groundbreaking anthology where each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.

Something followed us home. It crawled in with our prayers, slipped into our beds, watched from mirrors, waited in water, and learned our names. In these stories, horror does not announce itself. It possesses, feeds, whispers, and waits.

Gathering chilling work from some of today’s most acclaimed Latiné voices, this anthology moves through haunted households, brutal landscapes, sacred spaces turned dangerous, and bodies claimed by forces both ancient and intimate. The dead murmur behind locked doors. Bones rebuild themselves under merciless suns. Love becomes a doorway for demonic hunger. Prayers summon answers that arrive too late…or too fully. Blood, devotion, and memory intertwine as the past presses back with teeth.

Something Followed Us Home is a landmark anthology of Latiné horror. These stories remind us that the past is never gone, the dead are never silent, and the places we come from will always find their way back to us.

Featuring stories by: Agustina Bazterrica, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Cynthia Pelayo, Isabel Cañas, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Zoraida Córdova, Mariana Enriquez, Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, Ananda Lima, Xochitl Gonzalez, Leopoldo Goût, Juan Martinez, Mónica Ojeda, Daniel Jóse Older, Lilliam Rivera, Alex Segura, Diana Rodriguez Wallach

About The Author

Photograph by Gerardo Pelayo

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker and International Latino Book Award–winning author and poet. Her novels include Vanishing Daughters, Forgotten Sisters, Children of Chicago and The Shoemaker’s Magician. Pelayo has also written numerous short stories and is editor of Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror. She lives in Chicago.

Product Details

  • Publisher: Atria/Primero Sueno Press (September 29, 2026)
  • Length: 336 pages
  • ISBN13: 9781668091951

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Raves and Reviews

"I inhaled the anthology's seventeen stories, which range from the uncanny, creepy, humorous, and brutal. Insightful, humane, and original, SomethingFollowed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any weird/literary horror fan."

Paul Tremblay, NYT bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

"An exhilarating anthology ripping through borders and expectations with tenacity to show what Latiné Horror is truly capable of. Its stories are teeming with lyricism, warmth, trepidation, and anger from seventeen amazing writers. One can sense Pelayo’s purposive curation as they flow through the story order with ease, encountering a horror lover’s dream of trope variety. Something Followed Us Home offers plenty for every reader—you might have to worry about what the title warns because these unforgettable stories will attach themselves to your very essence."

Shane Hawk,  coeditor of the Never Whistle at Night series

"An absolute feast of an anthology—my advice would be to keep Something Followed Us Home close at hand and, each night, read one delicious and hair-raising story before going to bed."

Kelly Link, author of Book of Love

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