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Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys by Xavier Garza is a ya fiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Have you ever been too scared to sleep with the lights off? Were you frightened by a scratching sound inside of your walls or the beady red eyes and knotted green fingers of a duende? In his first collection of scary stories, Xavier Garza asks us these questions. The stories in this collection curdle with the creepy and crawling characters of traditional folklore. These stories brim with the supernatural: the mysterious disappearance of children who made deals with duendes, evil trolls who live inside the walls of our houses; the ghostly specter of La Llorona who floats along the creek bed, howling, "¡Ay, mis hijos!"; witches that turn into great white owls; a severed hand that hurtles across floors and catches a death grip; and even the Devil himself harvesting wayward souls. These are all cucuys, supernatural beings who have come to haunt the imagination in these tales of wonder and warning. These delicious and frightful stories come down through generations of grandmas teaching children to respect the laws of nature and the All Powerful. These particular spooky cucuys are recounted and illustrated by master storyteller Xavier Garza, just the way he heard them at the knees of oth

Who reads Creepy Creatures and Other Cucuys?

Author

Xavier Garza

Publisher

Arte Público Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9781558856479

Category

ya fiction

Subjects

Folklore, Children'S, Fiction

Rating

4.44 / 5 (32 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13