About the Book

Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed Us Home features the most exciting voices in dark fiction today and is a must read for any weird/lit/horror fan.” —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bestselling author of Horror Movie and A Head Full of Ghosts

Dive into the chilling depths of Latiné horror with this groundbreaking anthology, edited by Bram Stoker Award winner Cynthia Pelayo, 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.

Gathering chilling work from some of today’s most acclaimed Latiné voices, this horror 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. Blood, devotion, and memory intertwine as the past presses back with teeth.

Something Followed Us Home is an unnerving, visceral, and impossible-to-shake collection that proves that what is carried forward does not remain quiet, and what follows us rarely leaves without taking something in return.

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

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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: 9781668091944

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Raves and Reviews

“Some of the best writers working, doing their scariest stuff. This anthology will get you thinking twice about turning the lights off at night.”

Stephen Graham Jones, NYT bestselling author of The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

"I inhaled the anthology's seventeen stories, which range from the uncanny, creepy, humorous, and brutal. Insightful, humane, and original, Something Followed 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

“Universally vidid and immersive, these tales are sure to leave horror fans unsettled.” 

Publishers Weekly

"Beautiful, chilling, haunting, powerful. Something Followed Us Home is destined to become a timeless collection of diverse Latiné voices. This is horror literature at its finest at a time when the world needs it most.” 

Pedro Iniguez, Bram Stoker Award winner and author of Fever Dreams of a Parasite  

"I haven’t read an anthology this sharp and mean in years. With banger after banger, and incredible standouts from Carolina Flórez-Cerchiaro, Leopoldo Goût, and Juan Martinez, this collection is a killer."

Erika T. Wurth, author of White Horse and The Haunting of Room 904

"A man’s boyfriend is possessed by a demon, but who is the real monster in this pairing? A young woman faces a painful reminder of the wages of colonial oppression, a legacy teeming with ghosts. A man fleeing from U.S.-sponsored violence finds that he himself is a ghost of sorts, haunting his own threadbare life. From the savagely funny to the eerie and unsettling to the bloody and dark, this collection is the best of what Latiné horror can bring. I will be pressing this book into multiple hands, and I fully expect to see it on a whole lot of year-best lists. ¡Brava!"

Cynthia Gomez, author of Muñeca

"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

“The deliciously horrifying stories that make up Something Followed Us Home offer a cornucopia of Latiné tales that are as creepy as they are disturbing and original. Kudos to editor, Cynthia Pelayo, who has curated this essential anthology by writers who are at the top of their game as they conjure up a diverse cadre of spirits, demons, monsters, and beasts guaranteed to capture your nightmares. You have been warned.”

Daniel A. Olivas, author of Chicano Frankenstein

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