Rubén Degollado’s work has appeared or has been featured in Texas Highways, Literary Hub, CRAFT, The Common, The Rumpus, Image Journal, and elsewhere. His first novel Throw won the Texas Institute of Letters Best Young Adult book for 2020. His debut literary novel The Family Izquierdo was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and Mark Twain American Voice in Literature awards. Rubén lives and writes along the southern border in the Río Grande Valley of Texas. He is a contributor to A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories.
Book by Rubén Degollado
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A Night of Screams: Latino Horror Stories
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.