{"product_id":"filth-eaters-ito-romo-hardback","title":"Filth Eaters - Ito Romo - hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFilth Eaters by Ito Romo \/ 125-page hardback published in 2026 by Deep Vellum \/ ISBN 9781646054305\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e***\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA high-strung and inventive literary horror that will delight fans of Stephen Graham Jones and Mariana Enriquez, Ito Romo’s debut novel traces the thousand-year lineage of a new kind of vampire—the mestizo Filth Eater.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGranada, 1849. After centuries of scrounging in the shadows, the vampire Radamés discovers an ancient Aztec codex that reveals the vampires of the “New World” live a more “human” life—they marry, they give birth. Spurred on by tantalizing promise of a fuller existence, Radamés glamours and schemes his way onto a ship headed for Mexico. There, in the underbelly of the forgotten city of Teotihuacán, the Andalusian vampire falls in love with a member of this ancient sect of vampires who call themselves Filth Eaters. From their union, the mestizo vampire Doro is born. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHopping back and forth in time from the Indus River Delta in 1099 to the Muslim Spanish empire of the 1400s to a flooded cyberpunk New York City of the future, Filth Eaters  pulls at the threads of empire, greed, and climate collapse, but the beating, bloody heart of the story is our very human desire for the love that gives life meaning. The debut novel from a celebrated writer of “Chicano Gothic” stories, this surprising, gory saga turns a new page for a centuries-old genre.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“A medieval Spanish vampire migrates to Mexico in search of a better life and falls in love with an Aztec vampire in this work of literary horror about colonialism and desire.” —Publishers Weekly\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“A compact epic spanning centuries and continents . . . Romo builds on familiar vampire lore and turns a trope into something both unfamiliar and insightful.” —Kirkus Reviews\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deep Vellum","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48464965566689,"sku":"9781646054305","price":25.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0510\/5215\/0960\/files\/Ito-Romo-Filth-Eaters.jpg?v=1781826069","url":"https:\/\/50wattsbooks.com\/en-ca\/products\/filth-eaters-ito-romo-hardback","provider":"50 Watts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}