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There's Something Strange About This House...

It's spooky season, ¡y aquí espantan! (Ready for thrills and chills?) Check out one of these titles by Latine or Latin American authors featuring a spine-chillingly strange house.... Enter these stories at your own risk. *The titles on this list may be available in multiple formats or languages.

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  • From Bibliocommons: "In 1923 Soacha, Colombia, Antonia and her family live in the mansion La Casona, despite the house’s malevolent spirit, until Antonia’s mother takes a fatal fall and her grieving father attempts to burn the house down; three…
    Book, 2025New York, NY : Primero Sueno Press/Atria, 2025. — Fiction Florez
  • "Deep in the woods, there is a house that's easy to miss. Most people, in fact, would take one look and insist it's not there..." This is an ethereal, thrilling read about a mysterious house in the woods.
    Book, 2023New York : Dutton, [2023] — Fiction Reyes
  • The walls of the mysterious, isolated, creaky High Place house have secrets in this atmospheric gothic tale set in 1950s Mexico with an intrepid protagonist named Noemi. High Place is the stuff of nightmares - literally!
    Book, 2020New York : Del Rey, [2020] — Fiction Moreno
  • This is such a gripping book, imbued with history and magic! In this story, Anna, who has just lost her parents, lives alone with her sister Jennie in a "coveted Craftsman bungalow along the river in Chicago's Ravenswood community." She describes…
    Book, 2024Seattle : Thomas & Mercer, [2024] — Fiction Pelayo
  • From Bibliocommons: "Since his wife died, Hugo Contreras's debt from her medical bills has become insurmountable. His world in Miami has shrunk. He shuffles between his efficiency apartment, La Carreta (his favorite place for a cafecito), and a…
    Book, 2023[New York, NY] : Dutton, [2023] — Fiction Palma
  • From Booklist Reviews: "Mabry weaves dread through the air like smoke in this literary horror novel set in the aftermath of a cataclysmic natural disaster. Case arrives on the outskirts of her old Texas hometown, six months after a volcano has…
    Book, 2024New York : Algonquin Young Readers, 2024. — Fiction Mabry TEEN
  • From Library Journal Reviews: "Dália becomes keeper of the keys at Capricious House upon the death of her mentor and predecessor at the hands—and mandibles—of the mistress of the house, humanoid spider Anatema. Someone has stolen a keepsake from…
    Book, 2025New York : Tor Publishing Group, 2025. — Fiction Pueyo
  • This story collection was chosen for the story "Adela's House."
    Book, 2017London ; New York : Hogarth, 2017. — Fiction Enriquez
  • This book includes a story by Sandra Proudman, a Mexican American author. This is the description of the anthology from Bibliocommons: ""The house beckons you inside. Do you enter? A dance to the death. A monstrous girl who lures people into dark…
    Book, 2024Salem, MA : Page Street Publishing Company, 2024. — 813.6 H8167 2024 TEEN
  • From Bibliocommons: "For Jaime, returning to Saint Juniper means returning to a past he’s spent eight years trying to forget. But every gossip in town already knows his business, so he seeks out solitude into the nearby woods—Saint Juniper’s…
    eBook, 2023Peachtree, 2023
  • Cortázar is a masterful writer. This book is in Spanish.
    eAudiobook, 2020Penguin Random House Audio, 2020
  • The Aleph is less spine-chilling and more strange and mystical, but it is about a strange house all the same.
    eAudiobook, 2023Books on Tape, 2023