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. Glasgow-based Kirsty Logan manages to chip away at the deep and undefinable fear residing within us, particularly women, in Things We Say in the Dark, a collection of short stories with titles that sound like poems or song names, where she writes of scarecrows and ghosts, men-eating women and being buried alive. 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. A shocking contemporary collection of dark, feminist short stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing horror, by a talented writer. You won't put it down' Sunday TelegraphĪ shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction.Īlone 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. Things We Say in the Dark A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing supernatural fiction. Fans of Angela Carter and Shirley Jackson take note i Newspaper KIRSTY LOGAN WAS SELECTED AS ONE OF BRITAINS TEN MOST OUTSTANDING LGBTQ WRITERS by Val.
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