Lotería
Title:
Lotería
Author:
Pelayo, Cynthia, author.
ISBN:
9781957957067
Personal Author:
Edition:
Trade paperback reissue edition.
Physical Description:
335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
General Note:
54 short stories based on the cards of the Mexican board game of Lotería.
"Originally published in 2012 by Burial Day Books"--Title page verso.
ISBN taken from the back cover. The ISBN on the title page verso shows the number for The Shoemaker's Magician by the same author.
Abstract:
"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."-- Provided by publisher.