Born in 1973, Mariana Enríquez belongs to the group of Argentine writers who grew up during the military dictatorship that left thousands of people disappeared. It is in this context of political terror where the renowned Latin American author places the action of Our Share of Night, her best known novel, published originally in Spanish in 2019. 

Somewhere between horror novel, magical realism and family tale, Our Share of Night tells the story of a father and son driving across Argentina by road, from Buenos Aires to Iguazu Falls on the northern border with Brazil. These are the years of the military junta, and there are checkpoints with armed soldiers and tension in the air. Both are devastated by the death of the wife and mother they both loved. 

United in grief, the pair travel to her ancestral home, where they must confront the terrifying legacy she has bequeathed: a family called The Order that commits unspeakable acts in search of immortality.

Like his father, Gaspar (the son) is called to be a medium in The Order, which contacts the Darkness in search of eternal life through atrocious rituals. For them, it is vital to have a medium, but the fate of these beings endowed with special powers is cruel, and the physical and mental wear and tear is rapid and relentless. The origins of The Order, ruled by the powerful family of Gaspar's mother, go back centuries, when the knowledge of the Darkness came from the heart of Africa to England and spread to Argentina. 

The reader will embark on a journey between the repression of the Argentine military dictatorship and the psychedelic London of the 60s, where Gaspar's mother met a young singer with an androgynous air named David. He will discover houses whose interiors mutate, passageways that hide unimaginable monsters, rituals with fierce human sacrifices, enigmatic sexual liturgies and the burden of an atrocious inheritance.

"I think horror literature deals with the most difficult issues of our lives in general, violence, madness, isolation... It's an intergenerational genre, it's not for teenagers. That would be to think that fear is an emotion that ends when you're 18. And it seems to me that it's the opposite. The more adult you become, and the closer you get to death, the worse it gets," Enríquez explained in an interview with Casa América, Madrid, in November 2022. 

Considered the queen of horror literature in Argentina and Latin America, Enriquez has published two story collections in English, Things We Lost in the Fire and The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the International Booker Prize, the Kirkus Prize, the Ray Bradbury Prize for Science Fiction, Fantasy & Speculative Fiction, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize in Fiction.