Mariana Enriquez Books in Order

These twelve horror stories bring the supernatural into everyday Argentine life. Haunted histories, disturbing desires, illness, and vulnerable bodies reveal how private fears intersect with social neglect and the darkness of the past.

Mariana Enriquez investigates the life of Argentine writer Silvina Ocampo through testimony and archival sources. Conflicting accounts of her marriage, friendships and family relationships challenge the myths surrounding a woman who preferred to remain hidden.

A powerful medium tries to protect his son from a secret order seeking immortality through horrific rituals. Across Argentina’s dictatorship and its aftermath, their family’s inheritance binds intimate love to occult power and political violence.

In these twelve stories, ordinary Argentine lives collide with ghosts, unsettling transformations and places haunted by violence. Women confront the supernatural in familiar streets and homes, where personal grief and social cruelty acquire disturbing physical forms.

Sixteen-year-old Matías Kovac dreams of escaping his damaged family and neglected Buenos Aires neighborhood. His brother’s journals promise another life in Barcelona, but a package of cocaine draws him into a dangerous search for a way out.

Mariana Enriquez visits cemeteries around the world, exploring their architecture, histories and the stories attached to their dead. Personal memories and Argentina’s disappeared enter these journeys, connecting encounters with graves to grief, imagination and the persistence of the past.

Set amid Argentina’s social upheaval, these Gothic stories combine ghosts and occult disturbances with poverty, crime, and violence against women. Ordinary lives become unsettling encounters with the country’s troubled history and persistent fears.