Hombre Lobo: 13 True Xicanx Spooky Stories #2: 13 True Xicanx Spooky Stories: 13 True Xicanx Spooky Stories

Welcome to Hombre Lobo numero dos! More spooky (and true) stories by Xicanx!Hombre Lobo is a collection of real stories from people who have experienced something supernatural/paranormal/ or unknowable... Contributions include Xicanx/Latinx people from Southern California particularly Los Angeles with stories that take place all over the country and in some cases in Mexico. This series is the first of Xicanx spooky stories an homage to the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series. Nothing is more fun than telling spooky stories at night in the dark over a fire. The next thing may be reading such stories. Yes scary movies come close but reading is where your own imagination fills in the details. The stories in Hombre Lobo are short but what grabs you is whats not written-in what lingers long after youve turned the page. Sweet nightmares!-Luis J. Rodriguez author of Always Running and From Our Land to Our Land The stories included in this Hombre Lobo collection bring comfort by frightening us. We can start with the title which evokes the tune Lobo Hombre en París a Rock en Español staple that still haunts many sorely missed fiestas yarderas in the Southland. The specters of the otherworldly appear as they always do unexpectedly to disorient us to make us question our sanity and our principles. Yet what these stories also achieve is to frighten us within familiar places and -at times- along with a dose of dark humor. It might sound incongruous but in this long and treacherous 2020 being frightening by stories featuring shared Latinxs symbols is spookily soothing. -Jorge N. Leal Ph.D. Rock Archivo de LÁ