In his book, Ajuar funerario (2004), Fernando Iwasaki presents a range of scary stories. In some cases, the horror results from the gap between the terrible story told or suggested and the tone of the narrator. Although the presence of intertextual references to canonical authors of the genre often leads to parody, laughter, or smile never last long in Iwasaki’s literature. The reader soon realizes that even if horror has ceased to be embodied in the traditional motifs of the genre, it is still there, alive and kicking, ready to put our certainties in crisis and give us new chills.