Award-winning author Cynthia "Cina" Pelayo's acclaimed short story
collection Lotería, now with added illustrations and new bonus
stories...as well as an exclusive preview for her upcoming sequel to
CHILDREN OF CHICAGO, THE SHOEMAKER'S MAGICIAN (out this Spring).
The Mexican board game of Lotería is a game of chance--similar to bingo.
However, in Lotería instead of matching up numbers on a game board,
players match up images.
There are 54 cards in the Lotería game, and for this short story
collection you will find one unique story per card based on a Latin
American myth, folklore, superstition, or belief--with a slant towards
the paranormal and horrific. In this deck of cards you will find
murderers, ghosts, goblins and ghouls. This collection features
creatures and monsters, vampires, werewolves and more.
Many of these legends existed long before their European
counterparts--passed throughout the Americas via word of mouth,
collected just like the tales the Brothers Grimm. These are indeed fairy
tales--Latin American fairy tales--but with a horrifying slant.