Like those of Kafka Poe Leonora Carrington or Shirley Jackson Amparo Dávila's stories are
terrifying mesmerizing and expertly crafted-you'll finish each one gasping for air. With
acute psychological insight Dávila follows her characters to the limits of desire paranoia
insomnia and fear. She is a writer obsessed with obsession who makes nightmares come to life
through the everyday: loneliness sinks in easily like a razor-sharp knife some sort of evil
lurks in every shadow delusion takes the form of strange and very real creatures. After
reading The Houseguest-Dávila's debut collection in English-you'll wonder how this secret was
kept for so long.
