Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

Three stories that carry on the best tradition of classic horror, with the unmistakable narrative style of Mariana Enriquez and the haunting imagery of Santiago Caruso. Three children become fatally obsessed with an abandoned house that will forever mark their lives. A man witnesses inexplicable horrors in a ruined palace. A sinister presence lurks in an old seaside hotel and stalks one of its guests.

“A masterpiece of supernatural horror.”—The Washington Post<BR>“An enchanting, shattering, once-in-a-lifetime reading experience.”—The New York Times (Editors’ Choice)<BR>The Quietus’s #1 Work of Horror Fiction of the 21st Century So Far <BR> One of Reactor Magazine’s Most Iconic Speculative Fiction Books of the 21st Century<BR>One of Collider’s Ten Best Horror Books of All Time<BR><BR>ONE OF TIME AND THE ATLANTIC’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE YEAR • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S TEN BEST HORROR BOOKS OF THE YEAR • LONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • GOOD MORNING AMERICA BUZZ PICK<BR><BR>A woman’s mysterious death puts her husband and son on a collision course with her demonic family in the first novel to be translated into English by the International Booker Prize–shortlisted author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed—“the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time” (Kazuo Ishiguro).<BR><BR>A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review, NPR, The Washington Post, Esquire, Publishers Weekly, BookPage, Book Riot, PopSugar, The New York Public Library, Chicago Public Library, Polygon, Tordotcom, Lit Hub, Electric Lit, Commonweal, CrimeReads<BR><BR>“A magnificent accomplishment.”—Alan Moore, author of Watchmen<BR>“A masterpiece of literary horror.”—Publishers Weekly, starred review <BR>“One of Latin America’s most exciting authors.”—Silvia Moreno-Garcia<BR><BR>A young father and son set out on a road trip, devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called the Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.<BR><BR>For Gaspar, the son, this maniacal cult is his destiny. As the Order tries to pull him into their evil, he and his father take flight, attempting to outrun a powerful clan that will do anything to ensure its own survival. But how far will Gaspar’s father go to protect his child? And can anyone escape their fate?<BR><BR>Moving back and forth in time, from London in the swinging 1960s to the brutal years of Argentina’s military dictatorship and its turbulent aftermath, Our Share of Night is a novel like no other: a family story, a ghost story, a story of the occult and the supernatural, a book about the complexities of love and longing with queer subplots and themes. This is the masterwork of one of Latin America’s most original novelists, “a mesmerizing writer,” says Dave Eggers, “who demands to be read.”

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDIn Somebody is Walking on Your Grave, Mariana Enriquez blends journalistic rigour and her fascination with the macabre as we encounter famous graveyards steeped in history, such as Montparnasse in Paris, Highgate in London, and the Jewish cemetery in Prague, as well as more remote, decrepit, hidden, or secretly beautiful ones. These pages are full of the graves of famous figures - Elvis in Memphis, Karl Marx in London - mournful sculptures, traces of voodoo, catacombs, skeletons and an array of legends and stories. Mariana's personal journey weaves through haunting narratives, transforming burial grounds into spaces of reflection, obsession, and emotional discovery between the living and the dead. From the haunting statues of Staglieno in Genoa to the eerie silence of Rottnest Island's hidden Aboriginal cemetery, Enriquez's narrative shifts effortlessly between travelogue, essay, and memoir. In her unique voice, cemeteries transform into living, breathing places of reflection, obsession and revelation. As she roams, each cemetery becomes a lens through which she examines everything from colonial violence to the strange rituals surrounding death.

Quien ose adentrarse en las páginas de este libro sentirá un escalofrío recorriéndole la espina dorsal, y algunas cosas más. Son doce cuentos de horror, doce relatos sobre el horror: sobre el mal que acecha y los monstruos que surgen de pronto en la realidad más cotidiana, en grandes urbes o pequeños pueblos recónditos.En uno de los cuentos, una mujer mantiene a raya a los fantasmas que andan sueltos por un barrio periférico de Buenos Aires; entre ellos, los de su madre muerta de una dolorosa enfermedad, los de unas adolescentes asesinadas en la calle, el de un ladrón pillado en pleno robo y el de un chico que huía de un secuestro exprés. En otra historia, una pareja alquila una casa para unas vacaciones en un pueblo que ha ido perdiendo habitantes desde que el tren dejó de pasar; visitan en la estación abandonada la exposición de los perturbadores lienzos de un artista local, pero lo verdaderamente aterrador será conocer al autor de esas pinturas. En otra pieza, los voluntarios de una ONG que reparte comida por barrios marginales son perseguidos poráunos niños de pavorosos ojos negros. En otra, una periodista que investiga la historia de una chica desaparecida en un hotel en Los Ángeles, cuyas espeluznantes imágenes recorrieron internet, acaba enfrentándose a otra leyenda de la ciudad?Después de su monumental y aclamada novela Nuestra parte de noche, Mariana Enriquez vuelve al relato y demuestra que sigue en plena forma como gran continuadora y renovadora del género de terror, al que ha llevado a las más altas cotas literarias. Partiendo de la tradición ?desde las novelas góticas hasta Stephen King y Thomas Ligotti?, la escritora explora nuevos caminos, nuevas dimensiones.

Una niña desentierra en el jardín unos huesos que resultan no ser de un animal; la bucólica escena veraniega de unas chicas que se bañan en un paraje natural acaba convertida en un infierno de celos de inquietantes consecuencias; un mendigo despreciado siembra la desgracia en un barrio pudiente; Barcelona se transforma en un escenario perturbador, marcado por la culpa y del que es imposible escapar; una presencia fantasmal busca un sacrificio en un balneario; una chica siente una atracción fetichista por los corazones enfermos; un rockero fallecido de un modo atroz recibe un homenaje de sus fans que va más allá de lo imaginable; un chico que filma clandestinamente a parejas haciendo el amor y a mujeres con tacones altos caminando por las calles recibe una propuesta que le cambiará la vida... En los doce soberbios cuentos que componen este volumen Mariana Enriquez despliega todo un repertorio de recursos del relato clásico de terror: apariciones espectrales, brujas, sesiones de espiritismo, grutas, visiones, muertos que vuelven a la vida... Pero, lejos de proponer una mera revisitación arqueológica del género, reelabora ese material con una voz propia y radicalmente moderna. Tirando del hilo de la mejor tradición, la lleva un paso más allá, con historias que indagan en lo siniestro que se agazapa en lo cotidiano, despliegan un turbio erotismo y crean imágenes poderosísimas que dejan una huella indeleble. Quienes descubrieron a Mariana Enriquez con Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego tienen ahora en sus manos un libro anterior, en el que ya aparece perfectamente dibujado el universo de una escritora que conecta con maestros modernos de la literatura de terror como Shirley Jackson, Thomas Ligotti o su compatriota Cortázar. Enriquez se asoma a los abismos más recónditos del alma humana, a las soterradas corrientes de la sexualidad y la obsesión... Como ha dicho Leila Guerriero: 'El terror, en los cuentos de Mariana Enriquez, se desliza como un jadeo de agua negra sobre baldosas al sol. Como algo imposible que, sin embargo, podría suceder.'

An atmospheric and unsettling novel that gives voice to the forgotten living on the margins, this is the chronicle of Matías Kovac, a sixteen-year-old apathetic and marginalized boy who needs to break out of himself. The path forward seems to lie in the diaries left behind by his brother Cristian, who has fled to Barcelona. Kurt Cobain, Nick Cave, Suede, and Patti Smith form a kind of sacred text Matías is determined to decipher. Published in 2004 after the Argentine economic crisis, the novel draws on the social breakdown and widespread pessimism of the time to portray the fragility of family structures and how easily they can be shattered. Matías's father abandoned the family under the influence of evangelical preachers, his mother is bedridden and sedated by sleeping pills, and his sister Carla hides her face behind a balaclava after a failed suicide attempt. Barcelona becomes his personal Ithaca, the only possible escape, a journey that truly begins when a large package of cocaine falls into his hands--triggering a violent, hallucinatory odyssey through the neglected, ghostlike suburb where he lives.

Die aufregendste Autorin des literarischen Horror International ist Mariana Enriquez ein Star,zu ihren Fans zählen Patti Smith, Virginie Despentes und Joy Williams. Mutig, dunkel, politisch: Ihr Genre ist der literarische Horror. In ihrem bereits hymnisch gefeierten Erzählband 'Grelles Licht für darke Leute' schreibt Enriquez über die Frauen von Buenos Aires. Ein Gesicht verwest bei lebendigem Leibe. Tote verfolgen ihre Nachbar*innen. Frauen werden zu Vögeln. Es geht um den Horror des Alltags, die Gewalt, der Frauen und queere Menschen tagtäglich ausgesetzt sind. Und um die Kraft der Vorstellung, die sich widersetzen kann. Und sei es durch Erkundung der Finsternis.'Eine begnadete Schriftstellerin.' Patti Smith'Die aufregendste Autorin unserer Zeit: phantastisch, schrecklich, seltsam, großartig.' Virginie Despentes

WORLD FANTASY AWARD WINNER!<BR><BR>BRAM STOKER AWARD FINALIST • A diabolical collection of stories featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, goblins, and the macabre, by “Buenos Aires’s sorceress of horror” (Samanta Schweblin, The New York Times)<BR><BR>“Entertaining, political and exquisitely gruesome, these stories summon terror against the backdrop of everyday horrors. . . . A queen of horror delivers more delightfully twisted stories.”—Los Angeles Times<BR><BR>“As vivid and essential as Kafka’s tales.”—Minneapolis Star-Tribune<BR><BR>NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW EDITORS’ CHOICE • IGNYTE AWARD FINALIST • LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN FICTION • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY, THE TELEGRAPH, ELECTRIC LIT, PASTE, LATINA MEDIA<BR><BR>On the shores of this river, all the birds that fly, drink, perch on branches, and disturb siestas with the demonic squawking of the possessed—all those birds were once women.<BR><BR>Welcome to Argentina and the fascinating, frightening, fantastical imagination of Mariana Enriquez. In twelve spellbinding new stories, Enriquez writes about ordinary people, especially women, whose lives turn inside out when they encounter terror, the surreal, and the supernatural. A neighborhood nuisanced by ghosts, a family whose faces melt away, a faded hotel haunted by a girl who dissolved in the water tank on the roof, a riverbank populated by birds that used to be women—these and other tales illuminate the shadows of contemporary life, where the line between good and evil no longer exists.<BR><BR>Lyrical and hypnotic, heart-stopping and deeply moving, Enriquez’s stories never fail to enthrall, entertain, and leave us shaken. Translated by the award-winning Megan McDowell, A Sunny Place for Shady People showcases Enriquez’s unique blend of the literary and the horrific, and underscores why Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, calls her “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time.”

'Eine begnadete Schriftstellerin. Eindrücklich, dunkel und poetisch.' Patti SmithDunkelheit und Licht, Grausamkeit und Liebe. Eine große Familiensaga in einem von Extremen geprägten Land. Mariana Enriquez führt uns durch die verschlungene Geschichte Argentiniens, hin zu den Abgründen der Macht. Eine einzigartige Vater-Sohn-Geschichte, in der doch die Frauen alle Fäden in der Hand halten.Ein Vater und sein Sohn fahren quer durch Argentinien, als wären sie auf der Flucht. Wohin wollen sie? Vor wem fliehen sie? Es sind die Jahre der Militärjunta: Menschen verschwinden spurlos, überall lauert Gefahr. Juan versucht, seinen Sohn Gaspar vor dem Schicksal zu schützen, das ihm zugedacht ist, seit seine Mutter unter ungeklärten Umständen gestorben ist. Bei einem Unfall, der vielleicht keiner war. Wie sein Vater soll Gaspar einem Geheimbund, genannt der Orden, als Medium dienen, der mit grausamen Ritualen dem Geheimnis des ewigen Lebens auf die Spur kommen will. Doch der Preis ist hoch und der körperliche und geistige Verfall schnell und unerbittlich, wie Juan weiß. Unser Teil der Nacht ist eine Reise durch 40 Jahre argentinische Geschichte, auf den Spuren der Verführungen und Verbrechen der Macht. Eine große Geschichte, die Enriquez so poetisch, lakonisch und episch erzählt, dass sie noch lange nachhallt.'Mariana Enriquez erzählt mit der Wucht eines Güterzugs.' Dave Eggers

From cult sensation Mariana Enriquez, author of the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed"...one of the best novels of the 21st century" - Paul Tremblay"...a magnificent accomplishment and a genuine work of power" - Alan Moore His father could find what was lost. His father knew when someone was going to die. His father had talked to him about the dead who rode in on the wind. The dead travel fast.Gaspar is six years old when the Order first come for him.For years, they have exploited his father's ability to commune with the dead and the demonic, presiding over macabre rituals where the unwanted and the disappeared are tortured and executed, sacrificed to the Darkness. Now they want a successor.Nothing will stop the Order, nothing is beyond them. Surrounded by horrors, can Gaspar break free?Spanning the brutal decades of Argentina's military dictatorship and its aftermath, Our Share of Night is a haunting, thrilling novel of broken families, cursed inheritances, and the sacrifices a father will make to help his son escape his destiny.