Name: Horror Author Panel
Start: 2023-07-28T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2023-07-28T21:00:00-05:00
Location: Lark & Owl Booksellers

Horror Author Panel

Lark & Owl Booksellers

Are you a horror fan? Join us and Agatha Andrews as we discuss this unique collection of horror stories with the authors and editor.

<h3>In this novel, you will find a unique collection of horror stories by Hispanic authors reflecting themes impacting Latinos, such as cartel violence and immigration.</h3>A﻿bout the Book:The movement of the old woman's hands is quick and youthful as she works the dough for tamales on Mars' dusty, dry surface where their cohete broke apart and crash landed. She, her husband and their only son survive, and the old man curses the coyotes who took his money for a rocket not built to accommodate his family of eleven. A storm is coming, and he rails at his wife that she's wasting her time. "We'll be dead by the time you finish your goddamn tamales."This riveting collection of horror stories-and four poems-contains a wide range of styles, themes and authors. Creepy creatures roam the pages, including La Llorona and the Chupacabras in fresh takes on Latin American lore, as well as ghosts, zombies and shadow selves. Migrants continue to pass through Rancho Altamira where Esteban's family has lived for generations, but now there are two types: the living and the dead. A young man returns repeatedly to the scary portal down which his buddy disappeared. A woman is relieved to receive multiple calls from her cousin following Hurricane María in Puerto Rico, but she is stunned to later learn her prima died the first night of the storm! There's plenty of blood and gore in some stories, while others are mysterious and suspenseful.In his introduction, editor Richard Z. Santos writes it is no surprise these stories are brilliant and terrifying, given cartel violence, a history of CIA-backed dictatorships in Latin America, increasingly scary rhetoric from American politicians, decades of institutionalized racism and the demonization of Latinos in the media. "After all," he says, "we are the faceless horde, invading zombies hellbent on upturning the world and replacing it with something foreign, accented and impossibly different."Contributors to this book include*:Cloud Delfina Cardona, Flor Salcedo, Leticia Urieta, Marcis Vargas-Manriquez, Monica Teresa Ruiz, and Ruben Degollado.*﻿please note that not all authors will be in attendance.

A﻿bout the Editor:Richard Z. Santos&#x27; debut novel, Trust Me, was a finalist for the Writer&#x27;s League of Texas Book Awards and was named one of the best debuts of the year by CrimeReads. He is the Executive Director of Austin Bat Cave, an organization that provides creative writing workshops to students in under-resourced areas. He is a former Board Member of The National Book Critics Circle and has judged contests for the Kirkus Prize, the NEA, the International Thriller Writers Association, the Texas Book Festival and many more. Recent work can be found in Austin Noir (Akashic Books), Texas Monthly, CrimeReads, and more. In a previous career, he worked for some of the nation&#x27;s top political campaigns, consulting firms, and labor unions.

A﻿uthors in Attendance:Flor Salcedo: Salcedo was born and raised in the border town of El Paso, TX, the setting for “La Llorona Happenings.” She is a computer programmer living in Austin, Texas dreaming of the day she can transition to writing full time. Her work has appeared in The Ocotillo Review, the anthology Foreshadow: Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA, and the Latine anthology Where Monsters Lurk &amp; Magic Hides. Leticia Urieta: Leticia Urieta is Tejana writer from Austin, TX. Leticia is a graduate of Agnes Scott College with a BA in English/Creative Writing and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. She works a teaching artist in the Austin community with a focus on the pedagogy of equity in creative writing. She is the Program Director for Austin Bat Cave and is the director of Barrio Writers in Austin, a free college level youth writers workshop founded by author and activist Sarah Rafael Garcia in Santa Ana, CA. Her creative work appears in PANK, Chicon Street Poets, Lumina and many others. Her mixed genre collection of poetry and prose, Las Criaturas, is available now from FlowerSong Press.

A﻿bout the Moderator:A﻿gatha Andrews is the host of the gothic, mystery and horror podcast, She Wore Black. W﻿ebsite: https://www.sheworeblackpodcast.com/

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