Night of the Dead: Thirteen Ghost Stories for Hanal Pixán

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.
Once a year in Mexico, the table is set for those who are gone. But not everyone who arrives was invited.

In Ticul, a mother gets a late-night call to come home in time for Hanal Pixán. In Mixquic, a sixteen-year-old bell-ringer gives the farewell toll three minutes late—and someone is left behind. On the old road to Izamal, a girl asks for a ride on the night of the souls. In Ocotepec, a grandmother insists the marigold path take the long way around, never past the ravine.

Night of the Dead gathers thirteen original ghost stories set during Día de Muertos across Mexico: altars and offerings, the pib and the mucbipollo, the black thread on a child’s wrist, calaveritas, the X’tabay, Oaxaca’s muerteada, Huastec Xantolo, and cemeteries lit at midnight. Listen to “The Black Thread,” “The Farewell Toll,” “The Hallway Offering,” “The Dead Man Who Would Not Rise,” “The Last Calaverita,” “The Other Path,” and more. Their protagonists are ten, seventeen, forty, or eighty years old.

Atmospheric dread, endings that turn, and real traditions—without graphic violence: an audiobook to share as a family, from grandparents to grandchildren, beside the altar. (In Maya words such as Hanal Pixán, the letter x is pronounced roughly like English sh.)

Written by José Eduardo Díaz Cutz, creator of the YouTube channel Fuentes Sepultadas.