Things We Lost in the Fire
by Mariana Enriquez

Things We Lost in the Fire cover
Cover of Things We Lost in the Fire on the Open Library.

“Adela’s House” is the best haunted house story I ever read. That story alone makes this collection worth it.

Enriquez is from Buenos Aires, but she is not a magical realist. These stories are uncanny, often macabre, occasionally supernatural. She even goes Lovecraftian, once.

Translator: Megan McDowell.

Full review at Multo.