Lotería

Stories

Cynthia Pelayo

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English

Miscellaneous
10 December 2025

The Mexican board game of Lotera is a game of chance

similar to bingo. However, in Lotera instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images.

There are 54 cards in the Lotera 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.

By: Cynthia Pelayo
Imprint: Miscellaneous
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Reissue
Dimensions: Height: 210mm, Width: 140mm,
ISBN: 9781454961499
ISBN 10: 145496149X
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 10 December 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cynthia Pelayo is a Bram Stoker Award winning and International Latino Book Award winning author and poet. She writes fairy tales that blend genre and explore concepts of grief, mourning, and cycles of violence. She is the author ofLoteria,Santa Muerte,The Missing,Poems of My Night,Into the Forest and All the Way Through,Children of Chicago,Crime Scene,The Shoemaker's Magician, as well as dozens of standalone short stories and poems.