It is this silent scream which permeates The Houseguest." - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - NPR "Reminiscent of Shirley Jackson, Franz Kafka, and Edgar Allen Poe, Davila tests the limits of fiction." - Ploughshares "Filled with nightmarish imagery and creeping dread, Davila's stories plunge into the nature of fear: Terrifying." - Publishers Weekly "Mexico's high priestess of horror. For a very long time, women have sought comfort in the darkness when their own lives were full of quiet despair. Davila radiates an interesting sense of unease and calamity. I cannot believe that this is the first that I am experiencing Davila in English." - Nick Buzanski - Book Culture "Like Poe for the new millennium." - Kirkus "For the first time, we finally have a collection of her stories translated into English and they're as good as, as uncanny and mesmerizing as, some of the best work by Kafka or Poe." - Literary Hub "Davila is a marvel, and this book casts a delightful and disconcerting spell." - Juan Vidal - Los Angeles Times "Mexico's answer to Shirley Jackson. Amparo Davila's prose, her psychological awareness, and the beauty of her characters' misery is encompassing. "The Houseguest will make you paranoid you will second guess every shadow and slight movement that catches your eye.
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