Loteria

By: Cynthia Pelayo

Narrated by: Lori Barkin, Leonel Garza, Andrew Joseph Perez

Award-winning author Cynthia "Cina" Pelayo's acclaimed short story collection Lotería, now with 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.

©2023 Cynthia Pelayo (P)2023 Spotify Audiobooks

Some good stories, some meh.

Last story was absolutely infuriating, took WAY too long to get to the point, all the author did was talk about numbers and out loud I told myself “get on with it already!” What an awful way to end a book. Some stories were good but overall this book was meh.

This was good

These were good short stories. The narrators Lori Barkin, Leonel Garza, and Andrew Joseph Perez were great; they brought all the characters to life in each story.

Beautifully written

Horror at its poetic best. Deep, dark, beautifully written. Leaves u wanting more. Highly recommend.

Wow

Beautifully written stories brought to life by the wonderful performance of the narrators, vividly portraying the characters and evoking a chilling sense of horror.

short stories

the format is fun and interesting. was hard to stay focused on listening . I personally did not enjoy because it felt more of a children's scary story book