Woman in the Book (2021 series)

Woman in the Book
Genre	Comedy-horror
Based on	Woman in the Book by Crypt TV
Developed by	Daniel Persitz
Written by	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt
Directed by	Jeanette Jeanenne
Voices of	Diane Guerrero Carlos Carrera Bryan Greenberg Jose Ruiz-Gonzales
Composer	Robert Allaire
Country of origin	United States
Original languages	English Spanish
No. of episodes	10
Production
Executive producers	Darren Brandl Jack Davis James A. Fino Kate Kranz Simon Ore Paul Young
Producer	Kenny Micka
Editor	Santiago Pedroza
Running time	9-10 minutes
Production companies	Starburns Industries Crypt TV
Original release
Network	Facebook Watch
Release	June 4 (2021-06-04) – August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)

Woman in the Book (also known by its Spanish title La Mujer en el Libro) is an adult animated comedy-horror miniseries, based on the 2017 short film, Woman in the Book by horror website, Crypt TV, written and directed by Justin Martinez and produced by Allison Vanore.

The show was produced by animation studio, Starburns Industries. The series premiered on Facebook, on its video-on-demand streaming service, Facebook Watch, on June 4, 2021, until the final episode aired on August 6, 2021.

During its premiere, the show was met with positive reviews. ^[1]

Synopsis

The series follows the lives of three estranged siblings who reunite at an aging Mexican hacienda to wrestle for their inheritance, but inadvertently unleash a book-bound horror upon them that has plagued their family for generations.

Cast

Main

• Diane Guerrero as Lily Navarro. Upon returning to her family's hacienda, Lily encounters The Woman in the Book and begins experiencing strange visions of Christina Navarro, a deceased member of her family from the late 1800s. Lily was adopted by a family in California after her parents' deaths, and as an adult, she became involved with a man named Liam, who she later married. Liam was physically abusive to her, and after she became pregnant by him Lily stopped taking her anxiety medication as she "didn't feel right" on it.
  • Iliana I. Castillo voices Lily as a little girl. Castillo also voices an unnamed child in the season finale.
• Alfonso Herrera as Ricardo Navarro, Lily's and Daniel's older brother. Some time before the events of the series, Ricardo got into a scandal regarding questionable business practices and is in danger of losing custody of his children. Ricardo originally wanted to restore the hacienda and try to capitalize on it by turning it into an upscale bed and breakfast to restore the fortune he lost, but soon lost sight of that ambition after The Woman began her attack on him and his siblings. Ricardo appears to harbor a lot of guilt over not keeping in touch with his siblings, as it felt too painful for him to interact with them after their parents' death.
  • Hector Santiago, Jr. voices Ricardo as a little boy.
• Jose Ruiz-Gonzales as Daniel Navarro, Lily and Ricardo's baby brother. Eighteen years earlier, their mother attempted to kill Daniel in the hacienda library while she was possessed The Woman. Daniel was adopted by a family in the village near the hacienda, and learned about basic tactics to ward off spirits. He was originally excited to move into the hacienda, but this excitement faded with the arrival of The Woman. At the end of Episode 6, Daniel attempted to destroy The Woman by throwing her book into the fire. However, the book proved indestructible and The Woman slit his throat for his assassination attempt, completing the task she set out to finish eighteen years earlier.
• Bryan Greenberg as Liam, Lily's husband and the father of her unborn son. Liam was abusive towards Lily, but while the extent of this abuse is unknown he did leave scars on her and frightened Lily enough to leave her home in the US without telling him where she was going. Liam repeatedly called Lily and left her messages until Episode 7, when he arrived at the hacienda after using the Find My Phone tracker in Lily's phone. He attacked both the siblings and The Woman until a final confrontation in the hacienda office, where he got his arm caught in the antique printing press. He is sucked into the printing press when Lily turns it on and is killed.
• The Woman in the Book, a demonic entity that possesses the Navarro family's history book. She has ties to the Navarros and has a particular animosity towards Antonio Navarro.
  • Karen Furlong Arellano as Christina Navarro, Antonio Navarro's first wife and the true identity of The Woman. Christina was abused by Antonio, who saw her only as a means to have a son. He tried to keep her from her hobbies and locked her in a secret dungeon in the hacienda library, but Christina managed to keep her work going through the secret delivery of paper by her curandera and the use of her own blood as ink. Christina eventually bore a son, but the years of abuse effected her mental health and led her to drown him in the lake outside the hacienda. Christina was then murdered by her husband, who drowned her in the bathtub and mixed ink into the water. However, Christina's soul was bound to the Navarro family history book by The Curandera, who put a second spell of protection on the book to keep it from being destroyed.

Supporting

• Licia Alonso as Nena, the elderly groundskeeper of the hacienda. She lived down in the village near the hacienda, and has heard stories that the house is haunted. After The Woman kills Juana and traps the siblings on the hacienda grounds, Nena tries to stand up to the woman and is killed when The Woman floods her insides with ink, drowning her.
• Carlos Carerra as Antonio Navarro, the great-grandfather of the siblings. Antonio was a prominent book publisher in the late 1800s, and married a woman named Christina. Antonio was built up in history as a kind and loving man to his family, but in secret he abused Christina when she did not bear him a son, going as far as to kill all six daughters she bore and locking her in a secret dungeon in the hacienda library. After Christina drowned the only son she gave birth to, Antonio drowned her in the bathtub by mixing ink with the water and forcing her to stay underwater.
• Tomás Navarro, the siblings' father. When Daniel was a newborn, Tomás caught his wife Maria trying to murder him in the hacienda library. Not knowing she was possessed, he tried to stop her and wrestle the knife away from her. Maria then killed him by stabbing him in the stomach.
• Patricia de Leon as Maria Navarro, the siblings' mother. When Daniel was a newborn, Maria came into contact with the family history book and was possessed by The Woman. While under the influence of the demon, Maria attempted to murder the infant Daniel and murdered her husband Tomás by stabbing him in the stomach. After she killed her husband, The Woman forced Maria to kill herself by slitting her own throat.
• Alejandra Flores as Juana Salazar, the lawyer responsible for handling the siblings' estate. She tried to keep all the siblings together during their adoption process, but ultimately failed as many people only wanted Daniel as he was an infant at the time. Eighteen years later, on Daniel's eighteenth birthday, she returns to the hacienda to divide up the Navarro's estate, and she tells them about their great-grandfather. Upon mentioning how Antonio was a kind and loving father, she was attacked and killed by The Woman.
• Graciela Valderrama as The Curandera, an elderly woman who was called in to provide a supernatural advantage towards Christina bearing a son. She secretly helped Christina by smuggling her papers so she could keep writing. After Antonio murdered Christina, The Curandera performed a spell to bind Christina's soul to the Navarro family history book, as well as a second spell to keep the book from being destroyed. After Antonio Navarro learned what she had done, he locked her in the same dungeon he left Christina in, leaving her there to die of starvation as she cursed his family name.

Production

Previously, Crypt entered a 5-series deal with Facebook Watch in July 2019; it also partnered with Screen Gems to reboot the 1960s classic, 13 Ghosts .

In 2018, Crypt TV completed the series with a fundraising in the amount of $6.2M, which brought their funding total to over $10M since opening their doors in 2015. Investors include Blumhouse Productions, Lerer Hippeau, NBCUniversal, and Advancit Capital. ^[2]

Diane Guerrero ( Orange Is the New Black , Doom Patrol ) was cast for the series, alongside Alfonso Herrera ( Queen of the South ), Jose Ruiz-Gonzales, and Bryan Greenberg ( The Left Right Game ). ^[3]

Starburns Industries, the studio behind Rick and Morty and Anomalisa, produced the animation for the series. Darren Brandl said that Woman in the Book is "the first of many television animated series Crypt plans to launch and we couldn’t have imagined a more talented partner than Guerrero to voice the leading role, and Starburns to lead the animation of this special show built for our global Spanish speaking audience on Facebook Watch”. ^[4]

Episodes

NOTE: Each episode was written by Pamela Garcia Rooney and Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt, and directed by Jeanette Jeanenne.

No. overall	No. in season	Title	Directed by	Written by	Original release date
1	1	"El Libro (The Book)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	June 4, 2021 (2021-06-04)
After being separated due to the mysterious death of their parents, estranged siblings Lily, Ricardo, and Daniel Navarro reunite at their family's grand hacienda in Mexico to receive their inheritance. The siblings resurface the painful memories and the demons from the events that split them apart eighteen years ago.
2	2	"Seis Niñas Muertas (Six Dead Girls)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	June 11, 2021 (2021-06-11)
Lily experiences a strange nightmare, the groundskeeper tells the siblings about the hacienda's history and Ricardo meets the Woman in the Book.
3	3	"Secretos de los Muertos (Secrets of the Dead)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	June 18, 2021 (2021-06-18)
The estate lawyer arrives but angers the Woman in the Book, leading them all to the hacienda graveyard, where Lily experiences a shocking revelation.
4	4	"El Foso y el Muro (The Moat and the Wall)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	June 25, 2021 (2021-06-25)
Thinking the Woman in the Book wants her unborn baby, Lily tries to escape the hacienda with Ricardo and Daniel, with deadly consequences.
5	5	"Poesía de Sangre (Blood Poetry)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	July 2, 2021 (2021-07-02)
The Navarros wind up trapped in a hidden chamber, struggling to understand what the Woman in the Book wants while getting to know each other better. Lily experiences more visions and learns more about what happened to Christina Navarro in the late 1800s.
6	6	"Quemando los Huesos (Burning the Bones)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	July 9, 2021 (2021-07-09)
Lily discovers more about the book and its curse. Daniel tries to put a stop to the haunting once and for all.
7	7	"La Tormenta (The Storm)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	July 16, 2021 (2021-07-16)
Lily and Ricardo grieve their terrible loss and learn more about what the Woman wants. They're interrupted when Lily's angry husband, Liam arrives -- he's finally found her.
8	8	"Contracción (Contraction)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	July 23, 2021 (2021-07-23)
Lily hides as her husband Liam hunts her through the hacienda. But the Woman in the Book insists on intervening.
9	9	"La Prensa Impresa (The Printing Press)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	July 30, 2021 (2021-07-30)
After being driven back into the hacienda, Lily and Ricardo discover the horrible truth about how Christina became the Woman in the Book. But their plan to stop the angry spirit by printing her book is interrupted.
10	10	"La Letra Pequeña (The Fine Print)"	Jeanette Jeanenne	Pamela Garcia Rooney Eva Gonzalez Szigriszt	August 6, 2021 (2021-08-06)
Lily has a final confrontation with Liam where she seals their future. Lily and Ricardo finally realize what Christina wants and grant her wishes, unaware of the potential consequences.

References

1. Woman in the Book, Crypt TV, MAKE GOOD Content, Starburns Industries, 2021-06-04, retrieved 2025-11-26
2. "Crypt TV Launches 'Woman in the Book' Animated Horror Series". Animation World Network. Retrieved 2025-11-26.
3. Hale, James (2020-09-25). "Crypt TV Unveils 'Woman In The Book,' Its First Animated Facebook Watch Series". Tubefilter. Retrieved 2025-11-26.
4. White, Peter (2020-09-24). "Diane Guerrero To Star In 'Woman In The Book', Crypt TV's First Animated Horror Drama For Facebook Watch". Deadline. Retrieved 2025-12-03.