Blood Bound: A Tale of El Cucuy

About this episode

A YA horror author confronts his past abduction by El Cucuy during therapy, blurring the lines between reality and folklore.

When a YA horror author seeks therapy for a deepening depression, his claims of a childhood abduction by El Cucuy pull his therapist into a chilling descent through folklore and trauma, where the line between what’s real and what’s not starts to unravel. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Topics covered

• horror
• therapy
• folklore
• trauma
• abduction
• mental health

Keywords

• El Cucuy
• horror author
• therapy
• abduction
• folklore
• mental health
• trauma

Mentioned in this episode

Books & works: El Cucuy

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