In the twelve stories in A Sunny Place for Shady People, Mariana Enriquez finds the haunting darkness in the cracks of the pavement of city life in Buenos Aires, reveling in the off-kilter and macabre that we know, and blending it with the supernatural. Enriquez plays with horror tropes throughout - from the cityfolk gone to the country in “A Local Artist” to the beleaguered (true crime!) journalist in the titular story “A Sunny Place for Shady People” - but does so in ways that will still leave you thrilled and unsettled by the close. Much like the ghosts that will not stop screaming in the first story in this collection (“My Sad Dead”), Enriquez’s prose insists on finding its way into your brain.