House of Bone and Rain

From the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award-winning author of The Devil Takes You Home, a group of five teenage boys in Puerto Rico seek vengeance after one of their mothers is murdered. Set during a vicious hurricane, a Latinx Stand By Me with a haunted, dark heart.

For childhood friends Gabe, Xavier, Tavo, Paul, and Bimbo, death has always been close. Hurricanes. Car accidents. Gang violence. Suicide. Estamos rodeados de fantasmas was Gabe's grandmother's refrain. We are surrounded by ghosts. But this time is different. Bimbo's mom has been shot dead. We're gonna kill the guys who killed her Bimbo swears. And they all agree.

Feral with grief, Bimbo has become unrecognizable, taking no prisoners in his search for names. As the boys strategize, a storm gathers far from the Puerto Rican coast. Hurricanes are known to carry evil spirits in their currents and bring them ashore, spirits which impose their own order.

From the Shirley Jackson and Bram Stoker Award®-winning author, this is a harrowing coming-of-age story; a doomed tale of devotion, the afterlife of violence, and what rolls in on the tide.

Praise for HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN:

It is in Iglesias' stark, authoritative, sometimes surprisingly beautiful descriptions of the grit and pessimism of urban Puerto Rico that his prose turns electric... if there is a novel that reads more like living through a hurricane, I'm not sure I have the survival skills to read it.
--New York Times

House of Bone and Rain is one of the most intense, scary, and lovingly heartbroken modern novels you'll read. It is a story of violence and hauntings, of friendship and deadly winds in paradise. And it is unforgettable.
--Mariana Enriquez, bestselling author of OUR SHARE OF NIGHT

Iglesias's relentless and overpowering novel comes on like a hurricane - of wind, of bullets, of blood, of hope - and you read it breathlessly, waiting for the eye of the storm.
--Daniel Kraus, bestselling author of WHALEFALL

A pulse-pounding, blood-spattered revenge tale about the bonds of friendship and the devastation of violence, about ruthless gods and restless ghosts, about love and loss and righteous anger. With breathless pacing, knockout prose, and dynamic characters to follow into the dark, HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN is part crime thriller, part supernatural horror, and completely brilliant.
--Rachel Harrison, author of BLACK SHEEP

Thoughtful and violent, lyrical and muscular, HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN is a mystical, moving powerhouse that never lets up -and lingers long after the last sentence. Buy this book and welcome the storm.
--Michael Koryta, bestselling author of AN HONEST MAN

Gripping, eerie, and impossible to put down, HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN is a dark coming-of-age story drenched with spectral terror. And it's a page-turning dive into the cost of vengeance, loyalty, and love. Gabino Iglesias walks the electric high wire between crime and horror with breathtaking assurance.
--Meg Gardiner, bestselling author of HEAT 2

This book is a symphony of vengeance, violence, and loyalty. At once a coming of age, page-turning epic as well as a nail-biting journey of suspense, HOUSE OF BONE AND RAIN takes absolutely no prisoners. It also manages to be dark and beautiful and relentless. There's a storm coming this summer...and its name is Gabino Iglesias.
--Richard Chizmar, author of Becoming the Boogeyman

Pour a large glass of horror master Stephen King with a jigger of spicy Don Winslow and garnish with a splash of magical realism, and you have Iglesias's latest, a tall, tasty cocktail. Five boys, childhood pals, are surrounded by ghosts, violence and accidents. The book's Stand By Me-like setup turns into a vigilante tale when one of their mothers is shot and killed. The highly skilled Iglesias draws on the familiar without any worry that it might not be freshly frightening. Puerto Rican dealers, hurricanes, evil spirits and revenge are all ingredients in this potent novel.
--Lisa Levy, The Washington Post

A bold and brutal story about how a single-minded quest for justice tests loyalties, frays nerves and corrupts souls.
--Chicago Tribune

The author of The Devil Takes You Home conjures a story of ghosts, gangland carnage and serious storm winds in this tale of four childhood friends from Puerto Rico who seek vengeance when one of their mothers is murdered. If this is magical realism it's a dark, grimy variety that takes no prisoners.
--Boston Globe

Intricately plotted, with a strong sense of place, told with awe-inspiringly lyrical language and brutal violence, this is a remarkable novel that beams its hope into the darkness; a story that stands on its own as wholly original while confidently inserting itself into a conversation with horror's complicated past. It's a story that will introduce readers to a new favourite author while they wait for the next S. A. Cosby or Stephen Graham Jones.