"Like any other place where people live in the world, Latin America has its fair share of legendary tales. El Chupacabra, a creature reported to drink the blood of livestock, is just one example of the type of beast believed by some to exist in this part of the globe. Readers of this high-interest volume will learn that others include a giant worm said to burrow in the giant trenches it digs and a giant anaconda some claim to be much bigger than the...

"El gandador del premio Eisner Liniers utiliza su exuberante estilo de dibuyo y su desenfrenado sentido del humor para narrar tres espeluznantes cuentos populares de su infancia procedentes de diversos rincones de Latinoamérica..."-- Three Latin American folktales include the story of the Iara, a mermaid who lures men to her underwater domain, the tale of La Lechuza, an enormous owl with the face of a woman, and two gauchos' encounter with La Luz...