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A Haunting Book Spotlight Thursday: Something Followed Us Home by Cynthia Pelayo

Winner of Barnes & Noble Best Horror Book of 2026 and Gold Medal winner of this year’s International Latino Book Awards, SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME closes out our Spook-tober Book Spotlight Thursday. It is a collection of Latiné horror tales. 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, Lilliam Rivera, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, Alex Segura, and Cynthia Pelayo herself, who is also credited as editor.

Something Followed Us Home (Tales of  Latiné Horror)

Published: September 29, 2026

Genre:  Horror Collections, Anthologies, Fiction, Short stories, Hispanic Fiction

Tropes:
Inherited and Cross-Border Trauma
Folklore Reimagined
 Return of the Past
and more

 
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.

I love cultural horror folk tales, and in SOMETHING FOLLOWED US HOME, it states, “Each story reimagines immigration, colonization, faith, and folklore as the fears we inherit and carry across borders and generations.”

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HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR/EDITOR

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.

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Spooky Book Spotlight Series: What Happened At Sisters Creek by Lee Anderson

As we inch ever closer to Halloween caught in our Spooky Book Spotlight Series is What Happened At Sisters Creek by Lee Anderson, and to celebrate Halloween What Happened At Sisters Creek is currently available for only  0.99cent on ebook and $5.99 paperback! Read on!

What Happened At Sisters Creek

Genre: Horror, Suspense, Paranormal Suspense, Ghost Thriller

Publishing Date: August 2, 2023 (Palm Circle Press)

There are places you should never go…

Charlie Sparks is the sheriff of a small North Florida town, his career derailed by rampant scandal and corruption. At the worst time possible, he’s faced with solving the gruesome campsite murder of a young family. Though the youngest son survives, insisting a “monster” killed his parents and sister, Sheriff Sparks assumes the real culprits are two recent escaped convicts, seeking their revenge against him.

When a search party goes missing, Sparks assembles a makeshift search party of his own. It consists of the female deputy he’s having an affair with, his old friend just returned from action in the Middle East, and a self-serving journalist hoping for the news story of a lifetime. Eager to protect himself and those he loves (and to reclaim his reputation,) Sparks journeys into Sisters Creek, a national forest, to recapture the convicts before they can kill again.

A Horrifying Odyssey into the Unknown awaits you…

Here’s what readers have been saying.

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ALSO AVAILABLE ON PAPERBACK $5.99

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Clarence Lee Anderson is an American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright. He is the author of the controversial horror novel WHAT HAPPENED AT SISTERS CREEK, the acclaimed short story collection DARK LORDS OF THE TRAILER PARK, and the fantasy duology THE LOST BOOKS OF JYN, entitled THE EXPLODING PRINCESS and THE APOCALYPSE WEDDING. His two plays, SUPPER’S READY and LITTLE AMERICA, were both staged in New York City, off-Broadway.

Lee collaborates with his wife Milana under the pen name “Heather Wilde.” Together, they’ve written the highly-rated suspense novels, THE MOST BEAUTIFUL INSANITY and SWEET DEMON LOVE BABY, Book One and Two of THE SOUTH BEACH CRIME THRILLER SERIES. Book Three, TWILIGHT ADJACENT, is due to be released in 2024.

Follow Lee and his books at  www.leeanderson.net

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Spooky Book Review: Bunso Meets A MuMu Written and Illustrated by Rev Valdez

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As we get deeper into the spooky season October also marks Fillipino American History Month.  Now what better book to review then than Bunso Meets A Mumu by Rev Valdez!

BUNSO MEETS A MUMU

Genre: Children

Published: May 30, 2023 (Paws Publishing)

Meet Bunso, a boy with a really scary problem. It’s the Mumu, the Filipino version of the Boogeyman, who likes to frighten kids who don’t do as they are told by their elders! The Mumu will not let Bunso draw (on the walls), eat ice cream (before dinner), or play video games (his older brother’s). But Bunso has had enough! Gearing up to fight back against this destroyer of fun, Bunso makes surprising discoveries about the Mumu (and himself) in this fun, comic-like picture book that introduces children to Filipino culture and words.

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REVIEW

Bunso has a problem his older sister keeps telling scary stories and is now telling him the MUMU is going to get him if he doesn’t behave. Same with his Mom and Dad, The MUMU will get you if you don’t behave! His older brother just won’t let him play with his video games. Is this the curse of the MUMU? Wait what is a MUMU? Bunso is about to find out!

This book is the most adorable ever! While targeted at young children this book can be loved by all ages.  I read it to my book-loving ten-year-old twin boys and they really loved it. I confess I loved it!

Drawing from Filipino heritage and folklore Valdez creates a book for the whole family. Children will like the cool comic book-like drawing and Valdez writes with child-like dialogue that will reel young readers in. Parents and maybe older kids with like the worked in Fillipino culture and words therefore expanding their minds or finding a kindred spirit in Bunso’s world being Fillipino-American. Bunso Meets A MuMu looks like it’s the first in a series of Bunso Meets stories introducing other mythical monsters from Filipino culture. I for one can’t wait.

My rating 5 stars

Rating: 5 out of 5.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR


Rev Valdez is a Filipino-American illustrator based in San Francisco, CA. He’s passionate about introducing young readers to the myths and mythical creatures of Filipino culture through fun and funny visual storytelling.

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