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Things We Say in the Dark
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'Gripping .
'A brilliant collection of stories . All will burrow their way into your brain and not let go' Stylist
'Shimmers with menace .
A shocking contemporary collection of dark, feminist short stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing horror, by a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter.
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A shocking contemporary collection of dark, feminist short stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing horror, by a talented writer who has been compared to Angela Carter.
Gripping . . . You won't put it down - Sunday Telegraph
A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction.
Alone in a remote house in Iceland, a woman is unnerved by her isolation; another can only find respite from the clinging ghost that follows her by submerging herself in an overgrown pool. Couples wrestle with a lack of connection to their children; a schoolgirl becomes obsessed with the female anatomical models in a museum; and a cheery account of a child's day out is undercut by chilling footnotes.
These dark tales explore women's fears with electrifying honesty and invention and speak to one another about female bodies, domestic claustrophobia, desire, and violence.
A brilliant collection of stories . . . All will burrow their way into your brain and not let go - Stylist
Shimmers with menace . . . Fans of Angela Carter and Shirley Jackson take note - i Newspaper
Kirsty Logan was selected as one of Britain's ten most outstanding LGBTQ writers by Val McDermid for the International Literature Showcase in 2019.
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Kirsty Logan's Things We Say in the Dark is praised for its unsettling and brilliant collection of horror stories, drawing comparisons to Shirley Jackson. The stories are finely crafted with feminist undertones, gripping and unnerving readers. Critics highlight its literary quality, menacing atmosphere, and how it twists modern anxieties into surreal narratives, often drawing parallels to authors like Angela Carter and Margaret Atwood.
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ISBN: 9781529111286
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 01 October 2020
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Vintage
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 195g
Pages: 240
About the Author
Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first story collection, The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales, won the Scott Prize, the Polari First Book Prize and the Saboteur Award. Her first novel, The Gracekeepers, won a Lambda Literary Award and was selected for the Radio 2 Book Club and the Waterstones Book Club. A Portable Shelter won the Gavin Wallace Fellowship and Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of feminist horror stories, was optioned for TV. Her short fiction and poetry have been translated into Japanese, Spanish, Italian and Chinese, adapted for stage, recorded for radio and exhibited in galleries. She lives in Glasgow with her family. @kirstylogan www.kirstylogan.com
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