Things We Say in the Dark
By: Kirsty Logan
3.79
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing …
Want to Read $ 9.99"I want to know what haunts me. The ghosts that obscure my face in the mirror, that speak in my head when I’m trying to think, that pull my hands back when I try to reach out. I know there’s something; I just don’t know what it is yet."-Kirsty Logan, Things We Say in the Dark
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1. Fen
By: Daisy Johnson
3.64
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Daisy Johnson’s Fen is a liminal land. Real people live their lives here. They wrestle with familia… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
"I know who you are though in a moment I will not. It is getting. I do not remember the word. Soon it will be. How easily they go again. There is no loyalty in language. There is no."-Daisy Johnson, Fen
"Salma had read books where couples kissed, spoke in platitudes or come-ons; something about to happen, hinted at. Beyond that there was always only a white space on the page. A gap between paragraphs…"-Daisy Johnson, Fen
2. Folk
By: None , Zoe Gilbert , Isobel Simonds
3.94
Format: 255 pages, Hardcover
Every year they gather, while the girls shoot their arrows and the boys hunt them out. The air is r… read more
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- short stories
- fantasy
- fiction
3. Our Wives Under the Sea
By: Julia Armfield
3.78
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep-sea mission that ende… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"El océano profundo es una casa embrujada: un lugar donde se mueven en la oscuridad cosas que no deberían existir."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"She refused almost every aspect of my help, the way women will when they've been bred to accept little more than the baset civility."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"I don't know why I expected you to read my mind,' I say, when I call back to leave her a message, 'I was just doing what I always do, assuming the world revolves around me."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
"The space around us is a claw half grasped, holding tight without quite crushing, and I wish, in the idle way I always wish these days, that I felt more confident in my ability to breathe."-Julia Armfield, Our Wives Under the Sea
4. Paradise Rot
By: Jenny Hval
3.55
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A lyrical debut novel from a musician and artist renowned for her sharp sexual and political imager… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"I took a bite of a Bloody Ploughman. Even the flesh was red. 'Bloody,' Carral said. 'Nice colour,' I answered. 'It looks sinful. I bet that was the apple Eve ate, you know, in the Bible, the forbidde…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
"I'll tell you the fairy tale of the apple. Eve ate the apple, and then Adam came and did so too. Afterwards the apple was forgotten, and it was assumed that it rolled away in the grass while Adam and…"-Jenny Hval, Paradise Rot
5. Penance
By: Eliza Clark
3.90
Format: 336 pages, ebook
Do you know what happened already? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did you li… read more
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- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Do you know what happened to her already? Did you catch it in the papers? Are you local? Did you know her? Did you see it on the internet? Did some website the trawls local news for the worst details…"-Eliza Clark, Penance
6. Things We Say in the Dark
By: Kirsty Logan
3.79
Format: 226 pages, Hardcover
A shocking collection of dark stories, ranging from chilling contemporary fairytales to disturbing … read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
"I want to know what haunts me. The ghosts that obscure my face in the mirror, that speak in my head when I’m trying to think, that pull my hands back when I try to reach out. I know there’s something…"-Kirsty Logan, Things We Say in the Dark
7. Salt Slow
By: Julia Armfield
3.99
Format: 193 pages, Hardcover
This collection of stories is about women and their experiences in society, about bodies and the bo… read more
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- lgbt
- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
"She was a gentle sort of horror,"-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"The night is wide, uncurving, like the earth might be flat and walkable from end to distant end."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Sleeping gave me time off from myself — a delicious sort of respite. Without it I grow overfamiliar, sticky with self-contempt."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
"Occasionally, I convinced myself I had made it all up — love, attraction, all of it — that I had made it up with everyone I'd ever met."-Julia Armfield, Salt Slow
8. The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
By: Mariana Enríquez
3.81
Format: 208 pages, Hardcover
Following the "propulsive and mesmerizing" (New York Times Book Review) Things We Lost in the Fire … read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
"A friend of ours was arrested because he painted a slogan that said, 'Tourists, you're the terrorists."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Ahora tampoco se puede fumar en los bares. Sí, ya sé que eso pasa en todo el mundo, pero un bar no es un lugar sano, santa Madre de Dios. Es para conspirar, para relajarse, para ponerse en pedo."-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"esa edad suena música en la cabeza, todo el tiempo, como si transmitiera una radio en la nuca, bajo el cráneo. Esa música un día empieza a bajar de volumen o sencillamente se detiene. Cuando eso pasa…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
"Julieta finì di bere il caffè e abbassò la voce. «Non bisogna fare figli a Barcellona. Hai sentito quello che ci ha raccontato Manuel ieri sera? Qui non bisogna fare figli.» «Che cosa?» «Dammi retta.…"-Mariana Enríquez, The Dangers of Smoking in Bed
9. On Sun Swallowing
By: Dakota Warren
4.11
Format: None pages, Paperback
“On Sun Swallowing is a sweet and bloody collection of poetry, dancing in the spaces between skinne… read more
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- feminism
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
"IT'S PURGATORY BUT ITS LIVEABLE"-Dakota Warren, On Sun Swallowing
10. Orpheus Builds a Girl
By: Heather Parry
4.04
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Based on a true story, Orpheus Builds a Girl is a novel of sisterly love, sinister obsession, and t… read more
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- gothic
- adult
- fiction
- horror
"Our ability to embrace science is hindered entirely by men who would deny the possibility of impossible things."-Heather Parry, Orpheus Builds a Girl
11. Lost in the Garden
By: Adam S. Leslie
3.73
Format: 446 pages, Paperback
"Like an old wives’ tale, like a piece of wisdom passed down through generations which no one quest… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
- queer
12. A Darker Shade of Noir: New Stories of Body Horror by Women Writers (Akashic Noir)
By: Joyce Carol Oates
3.76
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
Joyce Carol Oates assembles an outstanding cast of authors—including Margaret Atwood, Tananarive Du… read more
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- gothic
- feminism
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
13. Parallel Hells
By: Leon Craig
3.31
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
In this deliciously strange debut collection, Leon Craig draws on folklore and gothic horror in ref… read more
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- gothic
- lgbt
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
14. The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
By: Bernardo Esquinca
4.14
Format: 210 pages, Hardcover
Bernardo Esquinca's haunting tale "Señor Ligotti" represented Mexico in the acclaimed The Valancour… read more
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- gothic
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
"Sooner or later', she said,' our true nature separates us from the person we love. Losing one's shadow shouldn't be a tragedy but a goal. It's the only way of finding out who we really are."-Bernardo Esquinca, The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories
15. Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold
By: Daisy Johnson
3.75
Format: 292 pages, Hardcover
Here are sisters fighting for the love of the same woman, a pregnant archaeologist unearthing impos… read more
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- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- fantasy
16. Mrs. S
By: K. Patrick
3.63
Format: 240 pages, Kindle Edition
A sublime and sensual debut novel exploring the nature of queer love and attraction, the transforma… read more
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- adult
- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
"I live in hope it is her, I live in fear it is her, it is never her."-K. Patrick, Mrs. S
17. Eyes Guts Throat Bones
By: Moïra Fowley-Doyle
4.02
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
What will the end of the world look like? Will it be an old man slowly turned to gold, flowers rain… read more
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- lgbt
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- fantasy
- queer
18. Dead Happy (HappyHead, #2)
By: Josh Silver
4.44
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Friends. Welcome to Elmhallow. Seb, along with a select group of participants, finds himself washed… read more
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- queer
- fiction
- lgbt
19. The Coiled Serpent
By: Camilla Grudova
3.75
Format: 208 pages, Kindle Edition
A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexand… read more
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- gothic
- anthologies
- short stories
- fiction
- horror
20. Private Rites
By: Julia Armfield
3.92
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
From the award-winning author of Our Wives Under the Sea, a speculative reimagining of King Lear, c… read more
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- lgbt
- fiction
- horror
- adult
- queer
"To be misunderstood is one thing, but the curious hostility of a sibling's approach lies less in what they miss than in the strange backdated nature of the things they choose to know. A person can be…"-Julia Armfield, Private Rites
21. Disturbance
By: Jenna Clake
3.15
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A spellbinding, genre-bending debut that follows a woman’s attempt to heal from an abusive relation… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
- horror
