Project Ketchup

Proyecto Kétchup by Inés Galiano is a Spanish-language blend of humor, horror, and fantasy that leans into “cosmic” strangeness while keeping the reading experience fast and fun.  The story follows Ana García García-García, a student from Murcia who arrives in the southern town of Jackson City after swapping a semester at the University of Murcia for the University of “This Side of Tennessee.”
Ana expects the classic American exchange adventure, but campus life comes with a side of eerie, paranormal incidents that keep escalating.  Between Statistics classes and Translation practice, she ends up joining a mixed fraternity (founded by the legendary, ghostly Sir Walter Coyle) and a writing club that treats spectral rituals with suspicious practicality.  From there, the book dives into a sequence of absurd, cinematic set pieces—portals, rock concerts hosted by a cosmic deity, a Halloween night at Lake Bun, and a Black Friday chaos that turns mythic.
This paperback edition (rústica con solapas) was published on 03/11/2022 and runs 224 pages, making it a great pick if you want a complete novel that doesn’t demand weeks of commitment.  It’s also marked as the winner of the 2023 Ignotus Award for Best Novel, a strong signal for readers who like acclaimed genre fiction.
Recommended for fans of horror-comedy, magical-realist bending of reality, and stories about culture shock where the “monsters” are both legendary and painfully real.  Expect sharp observations about American campus myths, playful genre references, and the satisfying feeling of getting a weird, self-contained ride from first page to last.