13 must-read anthologies books like Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Yamile Saied Méndez

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Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons…

"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

If you liked the anthologies plot in Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Yamile Saied Méndez , here is a list of 13 books like this:

Cover of They Lurk by Ronald Malfi

1. They Lurk

By: Ronald Malfi

3.79

Format: 201 pages, Kindle Edition

COME CLOSER . . . Five terrifying collected horror novellas newly reissued from the "modern-day … read more

Similar categories in Ronald Malfi's They Lurk book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology by Shane Hawk

2. Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology

By: Shane Hawk

3.98

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

A bold, clever, and sublimely sinister collection that dares to ask the question: “Are you ready to… read more

Similar categories in Shane Hawk's Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
Cover of Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology by Vince A. Liaguno

3. Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology

By: Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

An anthology of original horror stories edited by Bram Stoker Award ® winners Vince A. Liaguno and … read more

Similar categories in Vince A. Liaguno's Other Terrors: An Inclusive Anthology book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

4. Silver Nitrate

By: Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

Format: 323 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican Gothic come… read more

Similar categories in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Silver Nitrate book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Twice Cursed by Marie O'Regan

5. Twice Cursed

By: Marie O'Regan

3.90

Format: 316 pages, Kindle Edition

From the fun of the fair to the depths of hell, experience sixteen more curses in this sequel to th… read more

Similar categories in Marie O'Regan's Twice Cursed book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
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6. Piñata

By: Leopoldo Gout

3.67

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

A Head Full of Ghosts meets Hereditary in Piñata, a terrifying possession tale by author and artist… read more

Similar categories in Leopoldo Gout's Piñata book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • audiobook
  • fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
Cover of Out There Screaming by Jordan Peele

7. Out There Screaming

By: Jordan Peele

3.79

Format: 387 pages, Hardcover

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, c… read more

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  • anthologies
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Jesus better keep his little bitch mouth shut"

-Jordan Peele, Out There Screaming

Cover of Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems by Melania Luisa Marte

8. Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

By: Melania Luisa Marte

4.36

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

A rousing, beautifully observed, and tender-hearted debut poetry collection about identity, culture… read more

Similar categories in Melania Luisa Marte's Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • audiobook
"Unclench your fist and roll out the beauty in your fragile palm. In your genes are a paper trail. You will find a map back to yourself. // We may all have the same God but we don't have the same moth…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

"mashing plátanos: coddle them with praying hands remember they were born //hanging// not like fruit but like bodies dragged into boats & shipped like cargo propped crates, bonded limbs groups of 5 or…"

-Melania Luisa Marte, Plantains and Our Becoming: Poems

Cover of She Is a Haunting by Trang Thanh Tran

9. She Is a Haunting

By: Trang Thanh Tran

3.39

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

A house with a terrifying appetite haunts a broken family in this atmospheric horror, perfect for f… read more

Similar categories in Trang Thanh Tran's She Is a Haunting book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Who am I but someone others define? It's easier to be a stereotype. It hurts when you are yourself."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Revenge has always been easy to understand, but hunger implies that something can be filled. What is a ghost's limit when they have no real body?"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"Blood slides from the sill and onto the wall, where it inches toward the floor. I'll let it stain, because it's exactly what he wanted: a mark on Vietnam."

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

"My heart is here, the Lady of Many Tongues had said days before. Here, where I see how beautiful Đà Lạt is. I had thought the same of Saigon, despite the smoke and lights and buildings—how it could'v…"

-Trang Thanh Tran, She Is a Haunting

Cover of Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Yamile Saied Méndez

10. Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

By: Yamile Saied Méndez

3.99

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Fifteen original short stories from YA superstars, featuring Latine mythology’s most memorable mons… read more

Similar categories in Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"I don't want the type of love that uses our bodies to cover the holes in our relationship."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

"Where there is war there are monsters. They are drawn to the violence, seduces by the evil on display in humans. And when monsters slip into a place, they never go away."

-Yamile Saied Méndez, Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

Cover of Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For by Zoraida Córdova

11. Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For

By: Zoraida Córdova

3.67

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

14 Young Adult short stories from bestselling and award-winning authors make a splash in Mermaids N… read more

Similar categories in Zoraida Córdova's Mermaids Never Drown: Tales to Dive For book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight by Shelly   Page

12. Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight

By: Shelly Page

3.84

Format: 282 pages, Hardcover

Night of the Living Queers is a YA horror anthology that explores a night when anything is possible… read more

Similar categories in Shelly Page's Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of His Hideous Heart by Dahlia Adler

13. His Hideous Heart

By: Dahlia Adler

3.56

Format: 480 pages, Hardcover

Thirteen of YA’s most celebrated names reimagine Edgar Allan Poe’s most surprising, unsettling, and… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's His Hideous Heart book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
Cover of The Haunting of Alejandra by V. Castro

14. The Haunting of Alejandra

By: V. Castro

3.65

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A woman is haunted by the Mexican folk demon La Llorona as she unravels the dark secrets of her fam… read more

Similar categories in V. Castro's The Haunting of Alejandra book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook
"It occurred to Frances that perhaps everyone wore another set of clothing beneath their human skin, stitched together with all the things they hated about themselves and tried to hide."

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

"There are many times in life we feel there are no choices. Sometimes that is true. But I feel perhaps the true answers to the choices we must make find our way to us. Sometimes it is right away and a…"

-V. Castro, The Haunting of Alejandra

Cover of The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power by Terry J. Benton-Walker

15. The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power

By: Terry J. Benton-Walker

3.89

Format: 306 pages, Hardcover

13 SCARY STORIES. 13 AUTHORS OF COLOR. 13 TIMES WE SURVIVED THE FIRST KILL. The White Guy Dies Fir… read more

Similar categories in Terry J. Benton-Walker's The White Guy Dies First: 13 Scary Stories of Fear and Power book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • audiobook
Cover of I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea

16. I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

By: Jamison Shea

3.72

Format: 339 pages, Hardcover

There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure … read more

Similar categories in Jamison Shea's I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
"Twelve years of feeding this dream, cutting down anyone else who stood in my path, only to have the one girl I spared turn around and bite me. And she had the audacity to be mediocre."

-Jamison Shea, I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me

Cover of At Midnight by Dahlia Adler

17. At Midnight

By: Dahlia Adler

3.42

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

Fairy tales have been spun for thousands of years and remain among our most treasured stories. Weav… read more

Similar categories in Dahlia Adler's At Midnight book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fiction
  • fantasy
Cover of The Bewitching Hour: A Tara Prequel by Ashley Poston

18. The Bewitching Hour: A Tara Prequel

By: Ashley Poston

3.93

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

In this Buffy the Vampire Slayer prequel, fan-favorite and LGBTQIA+ icon Tara Maclay gets the main … read more

Similar categories in Ashley Poston's The Bewitching Hour: A Tara Prequel book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Manmade Monsters by Andrea L. Rogers

19. Manmade Monsters

By: Andrea L. Rogers

3.96

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Tsalagi should never have to live on human blood, but sometimes things just happen to sixteen-year-… read more

Similar categories in Andrea L. Rogers's Manmade Monsters book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • horror
  • fantasy
  • audiobook
Cover of Eternally Yours by Patrice Caldwell

20. Eternally Yours

By: Patrice Caldwell

3.65

Format: 364 pages, Hardcover

Vampires and merpeople, angels and demons—the paranormal is full of unusual beings. The stories in… read more

Similar categories in Patrice Caldwell's Eternally Yours book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • young adult fantasy
  • fantasy
Cover of Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories by Sandra Proudman

21. Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories

By: Sandra Proudman

3.99

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

These sixteen stories by award-winning and bestselling YA authors center a Latinx point of view in … read more

Similar categories in Sandra Proudman's Relit: 16 Latinx Remixes of Classic Stories book and Yamile Saied Méndez's Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories

  • lgbt
  • anthologies
  • young adult
  • short stories
  • fiction
  • fantasy
  • mythology
  • audiobook

19 best-selling fiction books like Our Shadows Have Claws: 15 Latin American Monster Stories by Yamile Saied Méndez

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Ronald Malfi

3.79

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Shane Hawk

3.98

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Vince A. Liaguno

3.55

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Silver Nitrate

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

3.61

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Chuck Tingle

3.94

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Being Ace: An Anthology of Queer, Trans, Femme, and Disabled Stories of Asexual Love and Connection

Madeline Dyer

3.98

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The Spirit Bares Its Teeth

Andrew Joseph White

4.52

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You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight

Kalynn Bayron

3.59

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