Tales from the Ca averal
Stories Rooted in Folklore, Drenched in Blood and Shadow
What haunts a land long after the sugarcane is cut?
What stories survive in the soil, whispered from root to root?
In this chilling collection of folkloric horror, Abrahan Reyes guides readers into cane fields, coastlines, and crossroads haunted by memory-from Barbados and Haiti to the Dominican hills, Brazilian forests, and beyond. Here, the dead don't rest. Spirits remember names. And the past clings to the living with ash-stained fingers.
You'll encounter:
A man who inherits a house-and the curse rooted beneath its tree.
A runaway lover marked by a forest spirit with backward feet.
Ghosts of rebellion who rise when the sugarcane burns.
A baron who buries the dead and offers the forgotten a chance to dance.
And legends that return from the sea, dripping with salt and vengeance.
Blending Caribbean and Latin American folklore with gothic horror and magical realism, Tales from the Ca averal weaves a spell of ancestral memory, blood-soaked soil, and unrelenting dread. Each story stands alone, but together they form a mosaic of colonial scars, cultural myth, and supernatural reckoning.
If you love atmospheric horror, dark folktales, and the kind of stories best told by candlelight, this book will pull you in-and it might not let you go.
Light a candle. Turn the page. But remember:
Not everything that follows you out of the ca averal will be human.