El Dia De Los Muertos

2002 Bram Stoker Award Winner, Locus Magazine 2002 Recommended Read, 2002 International Horror Guild Award nominee.

A novella. Cover art by John Picacio.

Just outside of Mexico City is the market Iztapalapa and a hill where every 52 years the Aztecs once performed their New Fire Ceremony. The ancient rites haven't been enacted for hundreds of years... but this year, on the Day of the Dead, archeologist Richard Bennington will awaken the old Aztec gods in an attempt to save his marriage by resurrecting the daughter he lost in an earthquake. What Bennington has forgotten, however, is that neither gods nor man can be trusted. Just how far will he go to recapture what he's lost? In this original novella, join award-winning author Brian A. Hopkins as he examines the manipulation of Fate and the preservation of all that we hold dear. Also included are several appendices touching on subjects covered in the book, and an afterword by the author.