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.
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
Deeply, deeply unsettling and brilliant collection of short
stories. Some feature horror, nearly all feature dread and, in the
manner of Shirley Jackson, all will burrow their way into your
brain and not let go. * Stylist *
Finely crafted feminist short stories, each one gripping and
unnerving in equal measure... you won't put it down * Sunday
Telegraph *
Literary and menacing. Powerfully unsettling. A fascinating
collection. * Metro *
Logan observes modern anxieties and commonplace troubles and twists
them into surreal new shapes...marvellously unnerving...her sharp
wit is unmistakable. * New Statesman *
Her poetic, supernatural prose has lace edges of sticky, violent
terror...Logan masters the format indubitably, channelling the
spirit of Angela Carter... these tales seem to perfectly suit the
unsettling times in which we live. Luckily for us, in writing these
terrifying tales Logan, like Margaret Atwood or George Orwell,
turns the big light on. * Herald *
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