Lotería - Pelayo, Cynthia

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Résumé :
The Mexican board game of Lote?ra is a game of chance--similar to bingo. However, in Lote?ra instead of matching up numbers on a game board, players match up images. There are 54 cards in the Lote?ra 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.--

Biographie:
Cynthia Cina Pelayo is an two-time Bram Stoker Award and Elgin Award nominated poet and author of CHILDREN OF CHICAGO. She is the author of Loteria, Santa Muerte, The Missing, Poems of My Night, and Into The Forest And All The Way Through. She is a Doctoral Candidate in Business Psychology at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Cina was raised in inner city Chicago, where she lives with her husband and children. Find her online at www.cinapelayo.com and on Twitter @cinapelayo.