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.”
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR/EDITOR
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.
