Review: The Build-a-Monster Workshop by Pedro Iniguez

cover of The Build-A-Monster WorkshopThe Build-a-Monster Workshop by Pedro Iniguez
Raw Dog Screaming Press (May 7, 2026)
Reviewed by Joshua Gage

Pedro Iniguez is a Mexican-American Bram Stoker, Elgin, and Dwarf Stars Award-winning science-fiction and horror writer from Los Angeles. He has also been a Rhysling finalist and Puschart Prize and Best of the Net nominee. He is the author of Mexicans on the Moon: Speculative Poetry from a Possible Future, Fever Dreams of a Parasite, Echoes and Embers: Speculative Stories, Sythetic Dawns & Crimson Dusks, and the SF novel Control Theory. His newest collection is The Build-a-Monster Workshop.Continue Reading

Review: Fever Dreams of a Parasite by Pedro Iniguez

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Fever Dreams of a Parasite by Pedro Iniguez
Raw Dog Screaming Press (March 2025)
Reviewed by Elizabeth Broadbent

All horror is political (Gabino Igelias says it, so it must be true). The best authors hand us stories alongside their politics; it’s only after we’re wowed by their words that we stand back and marvel at the message. And if the author is very lucky, their message hits at the right cultural moment. Their theme becomes not important, but culturally vital. We need their voice. We need them to speak up and speak out. In the midst of this moment, Pedro Iniguez pulls this off with panache in Fever Dreams of a ParasiteContinue Reading