Dark fiction deficit? We’ve got the ‘remedy’!

Undertaker Books is excited to announce the signing of Leticia Urieta for her collection of dark fiction and horror stories, The Remedy is the Disease, due out in May of 2026.

The Remedy is the Disease is full of memorable characters with a message. Urieta said “In this book, I found myself diving deeper into more experimental speculative and horror stories as a conduit for writing about chronic pain and illness, medical trauma, grief and the way vulnerable bodies are treated in a capitalist, individualistic society.”

However, the collection is not without moments of light. A mother’s love for her hard-won daughter; blossoming friendship between patients living nightmares of chronic pain; self-love in the face of a society that ignores individuals with disabilities at best, and reviles them at worst. Urieta knows this world, rendering both dark and light with a deft hand. “I wanted to dive into work that is gross, deeply uncomfortable, as well as the love and tender care that can come from finding others who can offer community in a disconnected world,” she said.

Those who love body horror, grief horror, fabulism, magical realism, feminist horror, and experimental fiction will want to put this title on their TBR lists. Stay tuned to Undertaker Books’ social media accounts for news leading up to the release, including preorder information.

Leticia Urieta (she/her/hers) is a Tejana writer from Austin, TX. She is a teaching artist in the greater Austin community and is also a freelance writer. She is a graduate of Agnes Scott College and holds an MFA in Fiction writing from Texas State University. Her work appears or is forthcoming in Chicon Street Poets, Lumina, The Offing, Kweli Journal, Medium, Electric Lit and others. Her chapbook, The Monster was published in 2018 from LibroMobile Press. Her hybrid collection, Las Criaturas, from FlowerSong Press was a finalist for the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction 2022 from the Texas Institute of Letters and a finalist for the 2024 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for Short Story Collections. Find out more at leticiaaurieta.com.