Description
In this haunting collection, Amparo Dávila turns ordinary rooms and routines into stages for psychological dread, where desire curdles into paranoia and fear settles with the quiet inevitability of insomnia. Across interconnected stories, characters confront obsession, loneliness, and delusion as the everyday world begins to warp—suggesting that the most terrifying forces may be the ones that move just beneath the surface of thought. Dávila’s razor-edged insight into the mind’s fragile boundaries makes each narrative feel intimate and inescapable, as if a nightmare has learned to speak in familiar voices. Blending suspense with uncanny realism, these stories explore how quickly perception can fail—and how easily the shadows can feel like they’re watching back.
Available Editions
paperback
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published Jan 1, 2018
122 pages
ISBN: 9780811228213
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
spa
Translation
From: spa
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Houseguest: And Other Stories by Amparo Dávila.