Woodworm

The house breathes. It holds bodies and secrets, and it is visited by ghosts, by angels that crowd the roof like insects, and by saints whose haloes scorch the bedsheets. A small-time hustler built it as a way of controlling his wife. Many years later, their daughter and her granddaughter still cannot leave.

The two women may be witches, or they may simply be angry. Either way, they are already objects of public scorn, and the mysterious disappearance of a young boy brings unwelcome attention their way. Isolated and under suspicion, they join forces with the spirits that haunt them and go after something resembling justice.

Woodworm is Layla Martínez's debut novel, an eerie, class-conscious work of horror that drags generations of monsters out into the daylight.