This is the first book that I have read by Mariana Enriquez and I really enjoyed the compilation of stories. There was a little bit of every type of horror you can imagine. The majority of the stories take place in Argentina. You get things from ghosts roaming a neighborhood with one of the residents being able to guide them, stories of horrible things happen that make your appearance change, there was a story that tied in the death of Elisa Lam.
The stories had a bit of mythology/folklore aspects to them. Some of the stories were a bit on the extreme but isn't that the kind of stories that we love to hear about? I will say that some of the stories I really enjoyed were: My Sad Dead, A Sunny Place for Shady People, Face of Disgrace (would love to see this one as a full story to get more background on the cause), The Refrigerator Cemetary.

Overall, it was a great compilation of chilling stories. Thank you Netgalley and Random House Publishing Group. All opinions are my own.

✨Book Review✨

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Are we surprised I binge-read this novel in a day? No. No, we aren’t, because the phenomenal Mariana Enríquez wrote it, with the spectacular Megan McDowell translating. If you consider yourself a horror genre fan and haven’t read *Our Share of Night,* you are doing yourself a disservice. Run, don’t walk, to get both of these books. Now.

This particular novel consists of multiple different short stories that will make any spooky reader a huge fan. I’m not going to give a summary of each story since that would defeat the point of reading said short story.

Highlights (these are my top favorites):
⭐️Black Eyes
⭐️Face of Disgrace
⭐️Night Birds
⭐️Julie
⭐️My Sad Dead
⭐️A Sunny Place for Shady People
⭐️A Local Artist

Pitfalls:
❌HA! Never. One of the best authors ever.

Thank you, NetGalley and Random House Publishing Group, for the ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review!

What a dark, morbid, depressing and verrryyyy unnerving collection of stories!

Mariana Enriquez does a great job at creating atmosphere and the feeling of undeniable dread in every story she writes, and I can’t recommend reading her collections enough.

There were some very strong stories that I’ll be thinking about for a longtime (and probably when I’m trying to fall asleep peacefully lol) and some stories that didn’t quite hit for me. My favorites being A Sunny Place for Shady People, Night Birds, Hyena Hymns & Black Eyes.

From ghosts and addiction to abusive men and devil children, there’s no shortage of having to face your fears in here….

4 stars!

Thanks to Netgalley & Hogarth for the ARC!

Thank you NetGalley and Random House [Hogarth] for an e-book of "A Sunny Place for Shady People" by Mariana Enriquez in exchange for an honest review. Wow! What an incredible read! Creepy, weird. ghostly, paranormal, tense, and otherworldly. A book that I will reread and remember. Something I desperately want to own! I was entranced and could not stop, I finished it in one sitting. Every time, Mariana Enriques manages to absolutely stun me with her writing. I recommend this to anyone! It's a short story collection, contemporary, and a great mix of horror, and fantasy.

Thanks to NetGalley and Hogarth for this eARC!

My first exposure to Mariana's writing was reading OUR SHARE OF NIGHT, which was engrossing and a great re-introduction (for me) back to horror. I was super excited to get a chance to read this new short story collection---and it didn't disappoint! I loved this book so much that I finished reading this within a week. I'm hooked on Mariana's writing and Megan McDowell's translation was superb.

This book is going on my bookshelf as print copy when it releases!

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I was really excited to receive an arc of this from netgalley but unfortunately I didn't enjoy it. I love this author and enjoyed her other short story collection but I just found these slow and uninteresting, I couldn't get into them. I do think people will enjoy them, just not me.

Thanks to NetGalley and Random House for a review copy.

A Sunny Place for Shady People is a collection of 12 short stories. All twelve are either set in or have ties to Buenos Aires. As expected, they are all creepy and beautifully written. I will say I don't understand them all after a single read and several have open endings that just make them more creepy. These sorts of stories are not my typical reading fare, but these are very much worth reading.

My Sad Dead
A charming ghost story. I think this is the least creepy of the 12.

A Sunny Place for Shady People
Anchored on the true story of Elisa Lam who was found drowned in a hotel water tank in 2013. My favourite story of the collection.

Face of Disgrace
Extremenly creepy - excellent story.

Julie
Very weird, I liked this one a lot.

Nightbirds
I think I need to read this one wihout interruptions - I think I missed something important. I have not idea whatis real in this story - which may be the point.

Metomorphosis
Very cool. Girl incorporates herself into herself.

Hyena Hymns
Very creepy - one of the stories where dange comes from found clothing.

Different Colors Made of Tears
The other clothing story - I missed something here as I don't get the ending.

The Suffering Woman
Like a ghost story but not really.

The Refrigerator Cemetery
So very creepy, very horror, not for me.

A Local Artist
High on the horror scale and low on the happy ending scale.

Black Eyes
A simpler story than the rest of the collection. I felt this had more gore and less horror.

A really strong collection in a genre outside my comfort zone.

Thank you NetGalley and Random House for this ARC.

I almost always enjoy short story anthologies, and this is no exception. The stories may not be scary, and a couple of them just do not land, but the first couple stories hit. The titular story especially - it’s very human, and a reminder that even the mundane can cause unease.

I'm tempted to go a little closer to 3.5 stars for this, but I'm ok with rounding it up to 4. I do like this collection a bit better than The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, but it suffers a bit from the same things that happen to any short story collection. Even though there are a lot of fantastic stories, there are a handful that are just ok and kind of drag it down. It's a pretty short collection, so it's not a huge deal. It's just borderline inevitable with collections. The stories I like, I really liked, though. This is horror the whole way through, and it ranges from Twilight Zone-y parable type stories to wild body horror and vampires, and it's mostly super fun. I just wanna read another full on Mariana Enriquez novel again, because Our Share of Night is for sure still her best work, but this is very fun and definitely recommended.

Perfect for fans of supernatural and horror. This collection of “things that go bump in the night” stories leaves you spine-tingling thrills from one story to the next. Though I’m usually not a fan of short collections because some stories capture you more than others, this was a solid showing by the author. Scarily delicious!

From my first read of The Dangers of Smoking In Bed, I knew that Mariana Enriquez would swiftly become one of my favorite current authors. One of the strongest current authors, especially in the short story collection department, and A Sunny Place for Shady People is just as strong as her two previous collections! If you enjoyed either, you should absolutely pick up a copy of this one!

THANK YOU TO NETGALLEY AND RANDOM HOUSE HOGARTH FOR THE E-ARC!

incredible as always. so full of creativity, emotion, love, and resistance to the norms - i love how enriquez includes sly analysis of politics and history as well.

Mariana Enriquez is one of my favorite horror authors. While I thoroughly enjoyed her recent debut novel, her short story collections hold a special place on my shelf. They have all spent time in my bag, for quick reads between train stops or while I sit for a cafe. I particularly enjoy how she blends the horror of the macabre and supernatural with the often more terrifying horrors we inflict upon our fellow men. She is a captivating storyteller, and of course, Megan McDowell is a talented translator. Needless to say, I loved this book!

Read on an ARC provided by the publisher and NetGalley, which did not influence my review.

This was was very much a Mariana Enriquez short story collection. It’s everything you expect. If you’re a short story/ horror lover it’s for you.. It’s dark and creepy and sometimes stomach churning!

You really get a good feel for Enriquez's style throughout this collection. Horror elements run through all of the stories, yes, but her voice is unique among horror writers. The stories are all interesting reads and varied. You care for the characters, even if you are with them for a short time and all are thoroughly enjoyable.

After reading, loving, and being fairly traumatized by Our Share of Night, I was excited to read more from Mariana Enríquez. I really enjoyed these stories as well. They were very atmospheric—I felt immediately engrossed in each one. In many of them, Enríquez introduces the paranormal, macabre elements as something unsurprising to her protagonists, regardless of how upsetting they’re likely to be for readers. The Suffering Woman was a highlight for me; it felt like it spoke to the pain of observing and consuming the world’s pain online, in real time. I also really enjoyed the titular story, A Sunny Place for Shady People. If I have critiques, it’s that many of the stories feel like they end quite abruptly (which to some extent is just the nature of a short story collection) and that a couple of the stories felt somewhat reminiscent of other work I’ve viewed or read: A Local Artist reminded me a lot of Midsommar, and Night Birds felt a lot like Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle. Regardless, I’d highly recommend this collection and definitely see myself revisiting many of the stories again.

We live in a crazy world, all of us, together. It's a place of both sun and shade, and though there is that sunny, glorious, incredibly beautiful "sun" part of the equation, it's the shade, yeah. Still there. Always there.

The best, most magical solution, the solution to keep us grounded and together: stories. We all have stories. More so, we all need stories.

Stories in search of more pain and death, stories about unasked for burdens and the weight of carrying them, stories about trauma passed down, stories about evil itself, stories about feelings we have no words for. All of these and more: we need them.

Stories nurture us. They keep us connected and brimming with life, brimming with that "sun" that's always poking around a shady spot.

Fin the stories, find the sun. Find A sunny Place for Shady People.

Another 5 star Mariana Enriquez publication! This collection of stories was perfect! My emotions were all over the place, and I loved it! I would recommend this to anyone who will listen, 5 stars!!

This was a solid collection of short stories that embodied dark, macabre, fanatical, and somber themes. Enriquez touches on relatable themes such as lingering grief, regret, shame, paranoia, and victim blaming. Those speak to the humanity of the protagonists-even when the paranormal plays a role. She also writes stories that bring to life the supernatural, and things that go bump in the night. My personal favorite was the last story, Black Eyes. Even though it doesn’t explicitly say, it gives off strong vampiric vibes and hits all the right horror notes.

While this collection isn’t strictly horror in the traditional sense, it still provides stories of dread, sadness, and peculiarity. It would be one I would recommend.