Argentina’s top horror writer will soon be spooking television audiences worldwide.

On Monday, Netflix announced the production of a new miniseries based on the short stories of Mariana Enriquez, who won the prestigious Herralde Prize for her novel Our Share of Night. 

Mis muertos tristes, or My Sad Dead Ones, will be produced by Chile’s Oscar-winning company Fabula (A Fantastic Woman), directed by Pablo Larraín (Spencer, María), and star Mercedes Morán (Elena Knows), Dolores Fonzi (Blondi), and Alejandra Flechner (Argentina, 1985). Principal photography will begin in late June in Buenos Aires and Santiago de Chile.

According to Netflix, the series will mix horror with drama and consist of four episodes whose “terror doesn’t come from ghosts but from what society keeps silent.”

The plot will draw from several of the author’s stories, including Julie, Un lugar soleado para gente sombría and Cuando hablábamos con los muertos. Enriquez adapted her own work, alongside Guillermo Calderón, Anastasia Ayazi and Larraín.

Mis muertos tristes will follow Ema, a 60-year-old doctor with the ability to see and hear the dead, who’s visited at her home by her disturbed young niece, Julie. Soon a family reunion will give way to a harrowing series of events will upset the balance between the worlds of the living and the dead, infecting an entire neighborhood with voices from beyond. 

“Mariana’s writing is particularly visual, always brilliant, and always dangerous,” explained Larrain. “It’s a casual, domestic kind of horror that inspires and will inspire many film and television adaptations.”

Earlier this year, another adaptation of Enriquez’s fiction, The Virgin of the Quarry Lake, won the Grand Jury Prize in the Argentine competition of the Buenos Aires Independent Film Festival. Directed by Laura Casabé, the film first premiered at Sundance in 2024. 

“Personally, I enjoy adaptations. I think they’re interpretations, and I have high expectations for this one,” said Enriquez. “The fact that it’s being released on a platform with the reach of Netflix is ​​breathtaking, and it’s all the more satisfying that it’s being produced locally in Latin America.”

Francisco Ramos, Netflix’s VP of Latin American Content, said having “one of the top Latin American filmmakers” behind the project will help cultivate a growing interest in Argentine stories. 

One of the platform’s breakout hits this year is The Eternaut, based on the classic Argentine comic by Héctor G. Oesterheld and Francisco Solano and starring the country’s most recognizable actor, Ricardo Darín. The sci-fi saga has been streamed more than 10 million times and became Netflix’s most-watched non-English language series worldwide shortly after its release in April.