This was a pretty neat horror short story collection from a Mexican writer. I found out about it on goodreads through their Halloween recommendations. I'm surprised that not more has been translated from this writer. The back is right from they say she reminds someone of Poe or Shirley Jackson. My favorite stories in the collection are "The Last Summer" and "The Breakfast." In "The Last Summer" an overstressed woman in her 40's loses it when she finds out that she is having another baby. In "The Breakfast" a woman recalls a frightening dream that she had the last night over breakfast. The thin line between dreaming and reality gets questioned. Mexico has made several amazing horror movies and finding a book like this delighted me. I just wish that people would bother to translate more the cool stuff from their past.
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