Welcome back to LIVE AND SPOOKY x The Myth & Fiction Podcast!

This October, we’re giving you double the episodes with double the chills. Each week, we are spotlighting the newest Flame Tree horror fiction titles so you can celebrate and fully embrace the spooky season.

This week’s book star is Latin American Shared Stories. I know what you’re thinking, ‘that doesn’t sound like a horror anthology’, and you’re right, it’s not strictly horror. It’s a vibrant collection of speculative stories and fascinating essays highlighting the many voices, mythologies, folklore and storytelling prowess of authors from Latin American countries or writing in the traditions of the Latin American diaspora. But our die-hard horror fans shouldn’t panic, we’ve sifted through the collection and found the spookiest stories for you all. This is after all, October, and if not now when?

Featuring

‘Nacho’ by Daniel Olivas (06.11), narrated by V. Castro.

AND ‘Sucker’ by Alyssa Alessi (24.36), narrated by V. Castro.

This episode is hosted by Bea.

Latin American Shared Stories is now available to purchase on our website or from any good bookstores near you. The US on sale date is the 11th of November.

‘Nacho’ is ©2022 Daniel Olivas and was originally published in The Rumpus in 2022 but more recently appeared in Latin American Shared Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025).

‘Sucker’ is ©2025 Alyssa Alessi and appeared in Latin American Shared Stories (Flame Tree Publishing, 2025)

#horrorfiction #newreleases #spookyseason

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Music is an extract of Sunbeams by Allen Stroud, from his Fractal Series album, licensed courtesy of fpl-digital 2025.

This podcast is hosted and sometimes narrated by Beatrix Ambery (also audio editor), Olivia Jackson (also podcast coordinator), Shilpa Varma and Nick Wells (also producer).

Chosen from hundreds of wonderful tales, short stories such as these are selected by our short window open submission process, giving opportunities to writers of all levels of experience, culture and location. Look out for our submission announcements, and see the full list here: flametreepublishing.com/gothic-fantasy-book-series-list.html

Our full range of thematic short stories, epic tales, mythology and folklore titles are available at all good bookstores, online and in retail, and at flametreepublishing.com

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The Flame Tree Myth and Fiction podcast is created and © copyright 2025 Flame Tree Publishing Ltd.