Disclaimer: I received an e-ARC from netgalley.

In this horror short story collection, the author explores the horrifying from a marginalized often Latinx perspective. Whether the horror comes from real life, like domestic abuse, racism and poverty, or from the supernatural, like vampires and deep sea creatures, the stories thrive by exploring the emotional states and fears of the various main characters and manage to pull you in quickly no matter which cosmic, strange turns the stories take. The writing is also very well done, building tension often to the point of near-snapping with a very satisfying terrifying end.
I’ve read one of the short stories here before in a cosmic horror collection “Beyond the Bounds of Infinity” and so while I was able to go into this collection expecting great cosmic horror I was still blown away by how much I enjoyed all the stories in here. While there are always some stories I enjoy more than others (in the case of this collection my favs very Feast of the Dreamer, Purveyors and Puppets, The Cellar, The Bottom Dweller, The Last Train out of Calico, Effigies of Monstrous Things and Postcards from Saquaroland), there wasn’t a single story in this anthology I did not enjoy.
All in all this is an anthology I can just recommend any reader interested in horror short stories and as always you can find trigger warnings and more thoughts on every single short story below.

Nightmare of a Million Faces: A woman working in the sex film industry visits a party to try and impress a producer in order to get a new role. But rumors about her abusive ex and her abortion make for an unrestful evening. And it gets worse, when suddenly everybody else disappears. Well written and haunting, I liked how dread was already ever present in the entire story from the beginning.
TW: domestic abuse, murder, sexual abuse, sex trafficking, victim blaming, violence
*FAV* Feast of the Dreamer: A man, formerly working for the mob, has found a new use for the corpses at the dumping sites. He’s literally chasing a dream through ingesting the corpses. During one of these visions, he finds out the grisly way to enter that world permanently. Great gore, great body horror, I loved it!
TW: cannibalism, murder, suicide, unsanitary, vomit
Skin: A young man goes out seal hunting with his uncle, hoping to pay off some gambling debts, but somebody decided to hunt them instead. Very short, but intriguing.
TW: fatphobia, murder
Shantytown: A Mexican Ghost Story: A short story about a young girl, who lives in a Shantytown and the Ghosts that haunt that place. Starts out more heartbreaking than scary, but features an interesting scary end.
TW: death, labor exploitation, racism
*FAV* Purveyors and Puppets: A TV show host with a past of being harassed by racists is invited to debate a rather famous racist TV show host. But once she arrives at his studio, she quickly realizes that something is incredibly wrong. Very dark, very messy, very fun.
TW: murder, stalking
Roots in Kon Tum: An American soldier visits Vietnam trying to find a woman he met there during his trip. Instead he is confronted with the realities of Agent Orange. Satisfying ending!
TW: ableism, chemical warfare, death, murder, (implied?) rape, war
Midnight Frequencies: A food vendor just trying to make a living, always carefully avoiding police attention as he cannot afford the permit costs, finds himself accosted by strange, hungry beings.
TW: murder
FAV* The Cellar: A sister just picked up her brother from prison, when a wildfire forces the two siblings to take shelter in the cellar of an abandoned farm. The shelter however leads to a land called Fantastica and in it they are visited by the people they lost. Haunting and horrifying.
TW: animal death, drunk driving, death, wildfire
The Savage Night: A hunter forced to trail behind his tribe for consorting with dark magic catches up to them in the night only to discover his people slaughtered. When one of them is returned to him he tries his best to carve out a survival for the two of them. But his friend has returned quite wrong.
TW: animal death, death, gore
*FAV* The Bottom Dweller: A man stars his new job at the marine park to clear aquariums. They keep all kinds of interesting creatures here and some of them are hungry. I really find the world building her fascinating and I love a good ocean-based horror!
TW: drowning, injury
Adrift Ebon Tides: A short story about two men adrift on the ocean, the last survivors of their ship. Very cosmic horror and really rather short, but I liked the writing style and again, I love ocean-based horror.
TW: death, drowning, suicide
Midnight Shoeshine: A man is stopped from committing suicide by a young boy offering a shoeshine. This night will change his life! Sweet, with a scary ending.
TW: murder, suicide
*FAV* The Last Train out of Calico: A bunch of aged train robbers decide on one last heist. But what they will find inside the train is far, far different than they could have ever expected. Really gorey, I liked it.
TW: gore, murder
Bad Dogs: A woman is on the way to her dealer, when she finds herself stranded in a phone booth and werewolves begin to circle. Very short, but still interesting character work.
TW: addiction, drugs
Birthday Boy: A young boy is excited for his birthday and his father promised him a pinata! But something else is going on in their house. A fascinating horror story told from the perspective of a child, I really liked the combination of innocence and underlying horror.
TW: murder, implied torture
The House of Laments: A soon-to-be family tries to find some things to decorate their home in a yard sale when they find a camera. The pictures reveal a dark secret that the pregnant woman can’t stop herself from investigating, unable to let it rest out of fear for her unborn child. Haunting and with a really grisly end.
TW: child murder, death
Caravan: A young boy and his mother are travelling, hoping for a better future. But the road is dangerous and food is scarce and when children start disappearing tempers soon flare when accusations of cannibalism are raised. Interesting and with a fun plot twist at the end.
TW: cannibalism, child death, murder
Body of Work; or, The Fever Dreams of a Parasite: A designer has achieved what few manage: fame. But he wishes for something bigger, something that will help him be remembered forever. Dives deep into gore and body horror, but is also kinda touching? I liked it.
TW: death, gore
*FAV* Effigies of Monstrous Things: A story I’ve actually read before in Beyond the Bounds of Infinity, but I enjoyed it then and I enjoyed it here. A scathing look at the economical injustice of the world and the horrors of being poor in a world that does not care. The end is both gorey and deeply sad. Very, very well done!
TW: body horror, child death, gore, mold, murder, racism, unsanitary living conditions
The Body Booth: A pregnant journalist is asked to investigate a disturbing art installation only to find that it is much more real than expected. Explores the overlap of motherhood and creation of life and men abusing women to make their art (looking at you Picasso). However, this is one of the less intriguing pieces in this collection to me.
TW: child death, gore, miscarriage, pregnancy horror
*FAV* Postcards from Saquaroland: A man who left his family for the promise of a better future and a place where he can ear money to support them finally asks for them to follow him. He only wants to find a job, but his dream of being possessed by creatures sensitive to sunlight who want darker-skinned vessels haunts him.
TW: flaying, gore

Ultimately not to my liking, so I had to put it aside, but I imagine there is plenty of enjoyment for gore-y horror fans.

In Pedro Iniguez’s new horror collection, Fever Dreams of a Parasite, characters hit the page with a lifetime of scars and a fair number of demons chasing them. In most cases, we’re introduced to them in a state of liminality, leaving an old life behind like the porn star fleeing her abusive relationship in Nightmare of a Million Faces, or the migrants making their way across Mexico in Caravan. In these stories, whether the heroes live or die, they will be shaped, and scarred by what they experience over the course of the story. The body keeps the score, and in this collection the game is lethal.


Having read a few of these stories prior, I knew what I was in for. I’d encountered Effigies of Monstrous Things in Beyond the Bounds of Infinity, last year’s cosmic horror anthology from the same publisher (Raw Dog Screaming Press) and mentioned it explicitly in my review of that volume. The author is a busy man, as he holds an impressive number of credits. He just released a poetry collection, Mexicans on the Moon, and his upcoming children’s book, The Fib, drops later this year.


In Fever Dreams of a Parasite, Iniguez’s greatest talent on display here is his ability to create great, unique characters shaped by their backstories. He accomplishes this so quickly, you barely realize it. Within a page, the writer can spark the emotional core of a living individual into life. Character motivations arise so naturally, the people in the stories start to feel like someone you know. A great monster is one thing, but for the reader, caring for the victim is what makes the beasts scary. Iniguez lands the trick. I found myself turning pages with panic as a mother and her child were trapped in a phone booth by a pack of werewolves in Bad Dogs. If I could have screamed warnings to the young expecting couple discovering evidence of murders via their newly purchased estate sale camera in House of Lament, I would have surely lost my voice.


The author draws from cosmic horror traditions for much of this volume. These are more Barker cosmic than Lovecraft but with shades of Bradbury. Think The Books of Blood meets The October Country. Predation of the vulnerable, outcast, unwanted, or ignored is a recurring theme in this collection. Iniguez finds ways to connect the fantastical with a relatable emotional moment, or theme. Feast of the Dreamer is a story early in the collection that sees a character feeding on rotting flesh for the high he gets from it, as his behavior takes a heavier toll on his body, he pivots from eating corpses and turns to eating himself. Aurelio knows where the bodies are buried because it used to be his job to bury them for the cartel. “It will be worth it, the dreams will come true,” he tells himself, digging up the first corpse. There’s allegorical potential all over this. Is it about addiction, is it a story about a broken system, the false equivalence of determination and agency? Maybe, probably, but it’s the emphasis on the emotional truth that allows these stories to land the punch without devolving into didactic lectures, and leaves the reader thinking about them long after they’ve closed the page.


Iniguez’s stories about children use innocence as a mirror to show to the cruelty of the real world. Caravan lands a disturbing ending that will catch even the most well read horror readers off guard and had me reveling in its wickedness but also my heart ached with the little boy, an innocent without choices, surviving. Similarly, Shantytown: A Mexican Ghost Story is a beautiful examination of powerlessness and invisibility of marginalized children.


Fever Dreams of a Parasite is full of heavy hitters. For me, my favorite story was towards the end. The Body Booth sees a reporter sent to investigate a new art installation where an eccentric biochemist has turned artist and created an unusual installation where he’s grafted flesh onto the interior of a vintage phonebooth, and visitors are encouraged to feed it with their own blood. This story deals with obsession, grief, and the give and take between art, artist, and audience. Another notable favorite was The Last Train to Calico, a story about aging bandits in the wild west running one last train job, only the cargo of this train is full of alien horrors that moves with all the excitement of a VHS era scifi-horror blockbuster.


The familiar H.P. Lovecraft quote about the greatest fear being fear of the unknown is almost cliche at this point but Iniguez understands a scarier addendum; that we are surrounded by unknown unknowns every day. His characters often cross a line without realization or warning and by then, it’s too late, they are changed or doomed. In The Bottom Dweller, a diver just happens to take the wrong job, in Feast of the Dreamer it’s simply bad lunch that sets the whole thing into gear, in Midnight Frequencies, it’s setting up a food truck in the wrong place at the wrong time, in The Body Booth it’s stepping inside an art installation, in House of Lament it’s buying a camera, and in Postcards from Saguaroland it’s just sending a piece of mail and taking the wrong gig.


These stories are grotesque, disturbing, fun, and thought provoking. They cover a lot of ground on the horror spectrum. I strongly recommend you step into the unknown and pick up Fever Dreams of a Parasite today.

Fever Dreams of a Parasite is one of the most significant books I've read recently. Masterfully weaving traditional horror tropes with social commentary that seems more relevant than ever, Pedro Iniguez writes 21 short stories that will challenge the reader to not only reflect on horror, but on the topics that Pedro introduces and explores in each story.

Iniguez's writing style is magnificent and beautiful. There are times where I felt almost intoxicated by his poetic way of describing things, especially the more horrific situations of devastation. Between grief, colonialism,

One of my favorite aspects of the collection was the Mexican American representation, weaving in social commentary and culture in a way that is enlightening to any reader.

Overall, it's an excellent collection of short stories that readers can read at any pace, offering short stories at different lengths, which some shorter than others.

I couldn't put it down! Pedro Iniguez's "Fever Dreams of a Paradise" is an absolutely phenomenal collection of 21 stories, some longer than others, but irrespective of length, they're all gems. Although they lean more towards portraying the terrifying rather than explaining it, they're so well-written they feel like prologues to exciting novels or short prequels to something longer.

Most of them have been published in anthologies and magazines ("The Nightmare Magazine," for example, well-known for high-quality stories), but my favorites (and the best ones, in my opinion) are published here for the first time: the titular "Body of Work; or, The Fever Dreams of a Parasite," an avowedly Ligottian fashion horror tale, in the format of a magazine article about a fashion designer, filled with incredible body horror imagery, “The Body Booth,” a Cronenberg-inspired body horror novelette about high art in the shape of a nightmarish phone booth containing live skin; and “The Cellar,” a psychedelic story taking a Wizard of Oz-setting and turning it into a psychotic trap for siblings trying to escape for a California wildfire.

Admittedly, though I consider these three stories the most accomplished, they're not even the strongest in terms of impact and originality: this has to be the opening story, "Nightmare of a Million Faces," featuring a female adult film star going to a party in the middle of the California desert, and unwittingly stumbling upon a Lovecraftian monstrosity; it touches on women's rights, abortion, and domestic abuse. Other equally memorable cosmic horror stories are "The Bottom Dweller," taking place in a theme park that never existed, and “Effigies of Monstrous Things,” about minorities in the US, specifically Mario, a father trying to support his young daughters Marissa and Yvette, and facing plumbing problems he tries to resolve himself with disastrous consequences for his family.

In fact, the volume abounds in cosmic horror stories, interspersed with some about vampires, the trope employed in unexpected and creepy ways. One story that stands out for its ending is "House of Laments," a horrific take on viewing houses to buy. A story a bit on the nose is the politically-inspired "Purveyors and Puppets," on vitriolic political commentators hosting on radio shows. Still, what always impresses is how fresh the stories feel: Iniguez comes up with the kind of twists which make the familiar tropes feel unfamiliar, without sacrificing neither immediacy nor vividness. And as a bonus, it's fortunate that the stories are almost always told from an Hispanic/Latino/Mexican perspective, pressing for representation, human rights, visibility, and justice.

Without a doubt, this is a stellar collection I unreservedly recommend!

Thank you to NetGalley and Raw Dog Screaming Press for the ARC of this collection. Pedro Iniguez’ Fever Dreams of a Parasite is a dizzying mix of horror, fantasy and fate. From finding yourself lost in a desert town you can’t find on any map to a candy-filled plea for a mercy in a basement, these stories are thought provoking in the way they use symbolism to show the horrible effects our realities and unrealities have on our psyche. Adrift Ebon Tides takes a perilous situation from hopelessness to psychological devastation in just a few pages. If you’re like me and you want to wonder about a story after you’ve finished, then this collection is perfect. So many small details stick with you and you’ll reinterpret their meanings and flip back for a closer look. Staying power.

A big thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for this ARC in return for this honest review.

Fever Dreams of a Paradise by Pedro Iniquez is a phenomenal collection of bite-sized horror stories that I absolutely devoured. What makes it even more special is that these stories come from fresh Hispanic perspectives, offering a much-needed twist in a genre that can sometimes feel too familiar.

Some of my favorites were Nightmare of a Million Faces and The House of Laments—both were seriously creepy and unforgettable, with characters that stuck with me long after I finished reading. But honestly, every single story in this collection was both horrific and fun to read. There’s a perfect balance of suspense, terror, and mystery in each one.

If you're someone who loves horror but is craving something different, with characters and experiences you don’t usually see in fiction, this book is for you. It’s an amazing way to get a fresh perspective while enjoying a spine-chilling experience. Highly recommend!

This was my first time reading something from this author and I absolutely loved the way he writes.

This book is filled with stories that are creepy, hopeless, eerie and grotesque. The majority of them do not have happy endings, and some will make you question what you've just read 👀

I can see myself reading more of his works, to be honest.

My favorite stories:

– Feast of the Dreamer
– Skins
– Midnight Shoeshine
– The Last Train out of Calico
– Caravan
– Effigies of Monstrous Things

Fever Dreams of a Parasite is a collection of horror short stories by Pedro Iniguez, coming out on March 13. They are effectively written, displaying various scary, nightmarish, weird, and folk-horror elements throughout that were told in coherent tales. And I like and sympathize with a fair number of the protagonists, some of whom are just trying to get by in hard times, including discrimination and economic deprivation, and some who are struggling to help and protect others.

However, en masse, the collection doesn't quite work for me. Perhaps that's because I was reading one story right after another rather than spacing them out the way one might encounter them in magazines. The characters and setups were different, but most of them consisted of "Here comes Doom! ... Here's the Doom! Let's roll around in it for a little while!" Sometimes they end when the Doom is complete, and sometimes there's a little epilogue where the Doom is spreading or, rarely, when a survivor reflects on their escape; however, they seemed much of a muchness to me.

"But Trish," you may say, "Aren't you just being one of those awful reviewers who complains when an [insert genre] book is written in [insert genre] style?

Maybe so, but I've reviewed a number of books in the last year or so that at least contained strong horror elements, and positively enjoyed and recommended quite a few. The stories here by Iniguez don't reach that level for me, but I definitely hope that Iniguez keeps writing and trying out new ideas, and that he'll find some kind of spark or story seed that he'll develop well enough for me to think of him as a master storyteller rather than a promising journeyman. In the meantime, anyone who wants distraction from the horrors of the real world via supernatural stories (with enough real-world flavor to keep them grounded) could do a lot worse than giving this collection a try.

Firstly, thank you Netgalley, Pedro Iniguez and RDS Publishing/ Raw Dog Screaming Press for allowing me to read this ARC.

I appreciated the unique aspect of each story, as the collection spans a variety of horror sub-genres, delving into some truly harrowing topics. While I didn’t necessarily enjoy some stories as much as others, I do think it offers a diverse range of horror experiences, which kept me interested. However, at times, I felt that 20 stories may have been a bit much. The writing can feel simple in parts, and I think some of the stories could have benefitted from a bit more depth. Instead of trying to cram everything into a few pages, a more in-depth exploration of fewer stories would have been welcome. Despite these minor criticisms, I still think it’s a solid anthology. I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the genre, as it offers a lot to think about.

I honestly don’t know what to say. These stories were so weird and left a lot to the imagination including any type of conclusions. I felt grossed out and uncomfortable reading most of the stories as well as confused and left unsatisfied.
I don’t think I necessarily liked the book but I can’t say it was bad. Not my cup of tea for sure but if you’re looking for a weird, bunch of stories to leave you scratching your head and maybe to discus/debate with friends then this book would be a good read for you.
I just wished the stories had a conclusion and would love to read a few of them if they were complete short stories there was major potential!

Thank you to Raw Dog Screaming Press and NetGalley for an eARC of this book!

I am so impressed with this collection of short stories. Each story was so different and unique and I never felt like I was reading the same thing twice.

With multiple POV’s of people from different cultures, it was so refreshing to read and I felt so immersed in each world the author was painting for me.

Sad, scary, jaw dropping and shocking are just a few words I’d use to describe the stories in this collection. Pedro Iniguez is a master of the craft of the short story. He provides the right amount of information and doesn’t make the stories linger longer than they needed to be. Some of them I even felt myself wanting more out of and I LOVE that feeling. It’s like he drops you off in this little universe and tells you a wonderful story and then sends you on your way.

Horror fans are going to love this!

I've long been a fan of Pedro Iniguez and his writing, but also the advocacy he does with teaching classes for writers who identify as of Mexican descent, and was glad to hear that he had a collection coming out in March of this year.

Rather than reviewing each story individually or going down the list of "this is what I liked about xyz," I will highlight the stories that spoke to me most. I think "Feast of the Dreamer" spoke to me on a different level. It's a distinctly "Pedro" story that only he could have written, and hits all the points in an effective way. I also enjoyed "Shantytown: A Mexican Ghost Story." It starts off with the protagonist, Maribel, telling her mother that the ghosts are back. The story explores grief, of what it means to live in the part of Tijuana that the characters do, of what American-owned factories have done to this place (and, on a deeper level, the settler-colonialism that pervaded Mexico since day one, and the effects of which are still felt to this day). It ends on a very chilling note.

Pedro's stories, most of them on the shorter side, are packed with a lot of incredible things story-wise, with characters, with settings, and it gives the collection a sense of immediacy. There's a lot of different things to absorb, but it's also delivered in a way that even though it's fast-paced, it's also really deep with the things that do stick around in your head afterwards and resonate.

To Latine readers of the book, particularly those of Mexican descent, I hope the collection gives them a sense of representation and being seen and "Our stories exist too. There is space for yours as well." I hope we see many more collections, longer form works, and other projects from Pedro in the years to come.

Fever Dreams of a Parasite by Pedro Iniguez is a masterly crafted collection of works that explores the fragility of the human condition in ways that I feel like I have not seen explored before. There were very few stories in this collection that left me unaffected, and a handful of stories felt like a punch to the gut, while others made me so uncomfortable in my own skin that I wanted to crawl right out of it (The Body Booth, anybody?).

I want to do this review justice, but I need to express first and foremost that after reading Iniguez's work in this collection, I've become a passionate reader and long term fan of his. I felt so exposed reading through each story, and it was clear from every word on the page that Iniguez is passionate about human rights and the human condition. He is empathetic to the plight of all people, and that's both admirable and clear within his work.

Another point of interest with Iniguez's work that I found fascinating was how it felt like he carefully leads the reader to a conclusion that, by the end of the work, becomes false. He quite literally yanks the rug out from under our feet in almost every story in a way that we are given very little time to accept this rug-pull and are left feeling disoriented and lost. Sometimes I don't feel as though those endings are as effective as others, but with many stories, I could not have predicted which direction I was being led until I arrived to the conclusion. I find that highly skillful to pull off repeatedly.

Pedro Iniguez is also highly skilled in how he crafts his descriptions. In this regard, I can describe him as a painter. The imagery he is able to convey in his writing is phenomenal, hellish, invigorating. I also found that Iniguez is bold, and very much unafraid to give us a view into the bad end of his characters. He is unafraid to explore characters who are deplorable, and he is unafraid to put those as the main focus of a story.

It is not lost on me that Pedro Iniguez's best work is longer form, when a story has the ability to grow into itself and pull you the reader in with it. His longest stories in this collection are my two favorites, and I hope to see full length novellas from Pedro some day. I will continue to eat his work up without abandon.

My favorite stories in this collection were the ones that spoke to the human condition in an empathetic and horrific manner. My loudest shoutouts go to:

The Body Booth
The Last Train out of Calico
Body of Work; or, The Fever Dreams of a Parasite
Skins

Thank you so much to Pedro Iniguez, Netgalley, and Raw Dog Screaming Press for this early copy.

Rating: A

Thank you NetGalley for this eARC.

Wow, just wow. Fever Dreams of a Parasite by Pedro Iniguez is a short horror story collection of his works. Circling around various diverse individuals, each undergoes a transformative horror experience in their story, across different age groups, lifestyles and life expectations.

So utterly original, gory, creepy and otherworldly, this collection is full of gore, body horror, themes of grief and loss, family, the struggles of immigrants and life.

I just loved this book and loved the writing - every character came off the page in the stories and drove me to keep reading. I felt like each protagonist in each story was so integrated into their world, that the things they noticed and felt were natural behaviours of theirs - like Mayra and Melody in Bad Dogs or Ramona and Andres in The Cellar. None of the stories were longer than they had to be. The author has such a vivid imagination for horror and I am so amazed by what people are writing out there. The monsters and horrors were so original, I never felt like I was reading something I'd already seen.

This was a thoroughly enjoyable and surprising collection. My favourites were Bad Dog, Birthday Boy and the Body Booth.

Fever Dreams of A Parasite
Pedro Iñiguez

Thank you Netgalley, RDS Press and Iñiguez for the ARC e-book in exchange for my feedback.

4 / 5

These uniquely written and conceptualized stories will wiggle and worm their way into your mind.

Shifting between cosmic and familiar, this is an incredibly solid collection of shorts - many of which might feel familiar, but Pedro Iñiguez takes them all into some unique and interesting directions.

I was pleasantly surprised by this collection.
If you enjoy horror shorts, I recommend checking it out yourself.

This was a collection of stories that I really enjoyed. It’s not per usual that all the stories in a collection is good but this is the exception. Thanks to NetGalley, the author and the publisher for this chance to read this book.

After reading this book I am left wanting more. These short stories were good and definitely well written. I enjoyed how each story had a life of its own and very diverse with the storytelling. Each story written had a life of Its own. Being an avid reader is in my nature and I have read many of books, but this is the second book I have read and I liked every short story written by an author. Although hard to pick my favorite stories are:
Nightmare of a Million Faces
Midnight Frequencies
The Cellar
Midnight Shoeshine
The Last Train Out of Calico
These short stories are a must read and the range and diversity in which these stories were written satisfy everyone dark , creepy and morbid taste.
Thank you to NetGalley, Pedro Iniguez, and RDS publishing for providing me with an Arc! I am leaving this review voluntarily.
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Wow! This collection of stories was nothing like I was expecting. Full of horrorca.d heebee jeepees.
One of the stories, Midnight Frequemcies, actually made me dream something similar
That story will stay with me forever.

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Just finished [Book Title] by Pedro Iniguez and I’m absolutely hooked! Each story in this collection kept me engaged from start to finish, with the perfect amount of surrealism and symbolism that I was hoping for. Iniguez's writing style is smooth and captivating, making the eerie and unsettling tone of the stories even more powerful.

The title couldn’t be more fitting – many of these stories definitely give off that fever dream, surreal vibe. The collection is short but packs a deep thematic punch, each story leaving a lasting impression. If you're looking for a gripping, thought-provoking read with a bit of horror, this one is a must!