Things We Lost In The Fire: A Short Horror Story

Mariana Enriquez

Mar 2021 · Come Join Us By The Fire, Volume 2 Book 26 · Nightfire · Narrated by Frankie Corzo

About this audiobook

In Argentina, one woman lights herself on fire. Hundreds follow. Together they create a new kind of beauty.

"Things We Lost in the Fire" by Mariana Enriquez is one of 18 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology. Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries like Seanan McGuire, T. Kingfisher, and Caitlín R. Kiernan; it includes stories from Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw (Nothing But Blackened Teeth) and Silvia Moreno-Garcia (Certain Dark Things); and from rising stars like Nibedita Sen, Matthew Lyons, and Jessica Guess. Plus, it has Nick Antosca’s “The Quiet Boy,” soon to be a major motion picture, Antlers, starring Keri Russell.

Ratings and reviews

I had to at least give one star for review purposes, otherwise this story just was not my kinda story..& I usually love some weird, different off the wall kinda stuff.

not really a horror story...

Maybe I would recommend

About the author

Mariana Enriquez (Buenos Aires, 1973) has published novels—including Our Share of Night, which won the famous Premio Herralde—and the short story collections Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Things We Lost in the Fire, which sold to 20 international publishers before it was even published in Spanish and won the Premio Ciutat de Barcelona. Enriquez’s short stories have been published in The New Yorker, Freeman's, Granta, McSweeney’s, Electric Literature and Asymptote. One story is a 2020 finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award. She has also published a collection of chronicles on her travels to certain cemeteries (Alguien camina sobre tu tumba) and a profile on Silvina Ocampo (La hermana menor).