At Latino Comics Expo 2025, held at Long Beach's Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA), five comic artists came together to talk with me and a crowd of LCX attendees about From Cocinas to Lucha Libre Ringsides: A Latinx Comics Anthology.

For too long, horror has spoken in a single accent—one that whispers of European castles, New England graveyards, and monsters born from traditions that never felt like home. But Our Shadows Have Claws (Hatchett, 2022) arrives like a long-overdue reckoning, and this time, the terror speaks in voices I recognize, in languages that feel like family.