The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (originally Los peligros de fumar en la cama) is a psychological horror short story collection written by Mariana Enriquez.

Mariana Enriquez, born in 1973, is an Argentine writer and journalist located in Buenos Aires.

[4] Her published works also include Bajar es lo peor (1995), Cómo desaparacer completamente (2004), Chicos que vuelven (2010), Las cosas que perdimos en el fuego (2016), and Nuestra parte de noche (2019).

Her literature is rooted in Latin America urban areas, a realistic setting she pulls from her own life.

[5] Enriquez credits a technique of blurring the realistic and fantastic for the sinister nature of her writing.

One day, the girl takes Angelita to the house where her bones were displaced in order to make peace with her.

Natalia prays at the altar, and savage dogs appear and surround Diego and Silvia.

Natalia leads the other girls to the bus stop as Silvia's and Diego's screams are heard in the distance.

After the trip, Josefina has newfound fear and anxiety that is crippling; she can't live a normal life.

One day, she meets up with a man who has a cardiac disease and lets her manipulate and listen to his heartbeat for her own pleasure.

The girls are arrested, sent to a psychiatric hospital, and don't speak to anyone but each other the entire time, causing hysteria across the country.

One day, Mechi finds one of the missing children, who was supposedly seen dead in a video, sitting in a park.

Enriquez initially had her series of short stories published in Spanish for Argentinian audiences in 2009.