Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories by Mexican American Writers

By Rob Johnson

Cuentos de fantasma are a popular form of Mexican literature combining fantasy, folktales, and pulp fiction. Fantasmas is the first collection of such stories written by Mexican American writiers,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1931010021
• ISBN13: 9781931010023
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Bilingual Review Press (AZ)
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

A Long Awaited Release

This book is actually edited by my former Creative Writing Professor, (in a later incarnation of the same class from which the book sprung). Dr. Johnson has a talent for seeing quality in other people's stories. If you like scary stories, try these on for size. They are interesting both in content and in cultural elements. It's about time that the literary world started taking Hispanic literature seriously. It has so much more flavor than a lot (not all, but a lot) of what comes out of (my own) WASPish heritage. Try it. You'll like it.

Truly scary reading on a cold, dark night!

Aptly edited by Rob Johnson (teacher of American literature at the University of Texas-Pan American, South Texas Valley) Fantasmas: Supernatural Stories By Mexican American Writers is an impressive and wide-ranging anthology of folklore-style fantasy tales, or cuentos de fantasma. Enhanced with an informative introduction by Kathleen Alcala, as well as being intrinsically shocking, spooky, and rich with cultural and traditional lore, the stories comprising Fantasmas make for truly scary reading on a cold, dark night!