Things We Say in the Dark

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Random House, Oct 3, 2019 - Fiction - 240 pages

'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 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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Contents

Last One to Leave Please Turn Off the Lights
Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House
My House is Out Where the Lights
Sleep You BlackEyed Pig Fall into a Deep Pit of Ghosts
Girls are Always Hungry When all the Men are BiteSize
Birds Fell From the Sky and Each One Spoke in Your Voice
The City is Full of Opportunities and Full of Dogs
My Body Cannot Forget Your Body
Stranger Blood is Sweeter
Good Good Good Nice Nice Nice
The Only Time I Think of You is All the Time
Half Sick of Shadows
The Only Thing I Cant Tell You is
The Worlds More Full of Weeping Than You Can Understand
Sweeter Than the Tongue I Remember
Watch the Wall My Darling While the Gentlemen Go

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About the author (2019)

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.

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www.kirstylogan.com