Something Followed Us Home edited by Cynthia Pelayo

A Whole Chorus of Latine Nightmares

Something Followed Us Home is a Latine horror anthology edited by Cynthia Pelayo and built around an unusually deep contributor list. Rather than offering one sustained haunting, it opens the door to many distinct fears, traditions, places, and forms of return.

A Contributor List Built to Startle

The lineup includes Agustina Bazterrica, Isabel Cañas, Gerardo Sámano Córdova, Zoraida Córdova, Ann Dávila Cardinal, Mariana Enriquez, Xochitl Gonzalez, Leopoldo Goût, Ananda Lima, Mónica Ojeda, Daniel José Older, Lilliam Rivera, Diana Rodriguez Wallach, Alex Segura, and Pelayo herself, among others.

That range is the collection’s real promise. Established horror voices sit beside writers known for mysteries, fantasy, and social fiction, creating room for the uncanny to emerge through very different styles rather than a single definition of Latine horror.

The Familiar Does Not Stay Behind

The title captures a particularly durable kind of fear: leaving a place is not the same as escaping what happened there. Home can mean refuge, inheritance, family, country, or the destination where something unwanted finally catches up.

Something Followed Us Home arrives September 29. For readers looking for a map of where Latine horror is moving now, this anthology offers not one route into the dark but an entire set of doors.