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Mariana Enriquez is an Argentine writer and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1973. Known for her gothic and unsettling style, she has published short stories, novels, and essays that explore the macabre in everyday life.
Known for: Our Share Of Night, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
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Our Share Of Night
A dark and ambitious novel that follows a father and son as they navigate a secret society obsessed with immortality. Set in late 20th-century Argentina, the story blends horror, political history, an...

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed is a collection of dark, unsettling short stories that explore urban fears, violence, and the supernatural in modern Argentina. With haunting prose and vivid atmosphere, ...
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Gaspar’s Journey and Juan’s Burden
Gaspar’s story begins in the shadow of his mother Rosario’s death. His father, Juan, drives him through rural Argentina, the dusty roads leading away from the civilized world and deep into the spiritual wilderness. Juan is a medium, one intimately linked to an entity called the Darkness—a vast and h...
From Our Share Of Night
Rosario Reyes and the Shadow of the Order
The journey backward in time uncovers the tragedy beneath this inheritance. Rosario Reyes was not just a mother or wife; she was born into a dynasty soaked in occult and political power. The Reyes family, through the Order, sought communion with the Darkness as means to achieve immortality. Their we...
From Our Share Of Night
Haunted Buenos Aires: The City as a Graveyard
I have always known that my city hums with the restlessness of the dead. Buenos Aires is beautiful, yes, but beneath its rhythm — the buses, the taxis, the shouts from old cafés — there are bones pulsing underfoot. In my stories, the city itself becomes a character, weary and watchful. It shelters s...
From The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
The Girl Who Loved Bones: Desire and Morbidity
Among those who haunt Buenos Aires are not only ghosts but the living who are drawn to them — people intoxicated by death itself. In one story, a young woman becomes obsessed with the bones of dead children, collecting them as though they were treasures or tokens of an unspoken longing. Her fascinat...
From The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
About Mariana Enriquez
Mariana Enriquez is an Argentine writer and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1973. Known for her gothic and unsettling style, she has published short stories, novels, and essays that explore the macabre in everyday life. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and have received inte...
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Mariana Enriquez is an Argentine writer and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1973. Known for her gothic and unsettling style, she has published short stories, novels, and essays that explore the macabre in everyday life. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and have received inte...
Mariana Enriquez is an Argentine writer and journalist born in Buenos Aires in 1973. Known for her gothic and unsettling style, she has published short stories, novels, and essays that explore the macabre in everyday life. Her works have been translated into multiple languages and have received international acclaim.
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