Desde una mujer mayor que adopta a un alien̕gena, una esposa traicionada que recurre a la magia vud︢ como pr̀ctica terap̌utica, una anciana solitaria que juega con la ouija, hasta una vampiresa cuyas v̕ctimas son hombres violentos y acosadores, los ocho cuentos reunidos en este libro tienen como protagonistas a individuos comunes que se encuentran con lo fant̀stico, personas con pretensiones convencionales y aspiraciones leg̕timas que, sin...

"Un moderno Bob Cratchit, Hugo Contreras, vive en un humedo departamento de una sola habitacion y sabe que nunca dejara de pagar las cuentas medicas de su difunta esposa ni sus propias deudas, acumuladas durante su juventud. Su Scrooge es Alexi Ramirez, un avaricioso abogado de cobranza cubano-americano con un rostro familiar por sus anuncios en las paradas de autobus y un serio problema personal: un fantasma en el caseron de su familia. Es bajo estas...

While reading aloud fairy stories in hopes of bringing her comatose eight-year-old daughter back to this world, Ceres is called to a land colored by the memories of childhood and the folklore beloved by her father where old enemies are watching and waiting.

"On a sunny September morning, the creatures first appear. Shur sees one of them hovering outside the window in history class: it looks like a giant butterfly, at first too beautiful and strange to seem like a threat. But when emergency alerts light up everyone's phones around her, she realizes something very, very wrong is happening outside. These... things are everywhere. By the time Shur makes it back to her house with her brother, Keene, and their...

Talia March, Pallas Llewellyn, and Amelia Rivers, bonded by a night they all have no memory of, are dedicated to uncovering the mystery of what really happened to them months ago-an experience that brought out innate psychic abilities in each of them. The women suspect they were test subjects years earlier, and that there are more people like them-all they have to do is find the list. When Talia follows up on a lead from Phoebe, a fan of the trio's...

Jericka Walker had planned to spend the summer before senior year soaking up the sun with her best friend on the Jersey Shore. Instead she finds herself in Coldwater, Maryland, a small town with a dark and complicated past where her estranged grandmother lives—someone she knows only two things her name and the fact that she left Jericka's mother and uncle when they were children. But now Jericka's grandmother is dying, and her mother has dragged...

"July 1995. April and Eddie have taken a wrong turn. They're looking for the small resort town where they plan to spend their honeymoon. When they spot what appears to be a lone hitchhiker along the deserted road, they stop to help. But not long after the hitchhiker gets into their car, they see the blood seeping from her jacket and a truck barreling down Atticus Line after them. When the hitchhiker dies at the local hospital, April and Eddie find...

"Twins Calla and Briar have spent their entire lives hiding from the powerful sorceress who destroyed their kingdom . . . and from the humans who don’t know they are Wolves. Each twin has their own purpose in life: Briar’s is to marry the prince of an ally pack and save the Golden Court. Calla’s purpose is to remain a secret, her twin’s shadow . . . the backup plan. No one knows who Calla truly is except for her childhood...

"David is growing up in a world where something is very badly wrong but everyone is protecting David from knowing what it is. People are going missing, bodies are showing up with wings, or bones in nests if you believe the rumours from the kids at school. David doesn’t really know because his parents turn off the news whenever he might get a handle on what is happening around him and his older sister just doesn’t seem interested in sharing....