I could fill the rest of this review with the unlikely-yet-elegant turns of phrase I underlined as I read, but I particularly enjoyed a scene on a night bus “with city lights swooping yolky past the window” and the idea that somebody who had been talking to themselves for a long time would find their words “had turned to slush and mutter. In many of the stories in this collection there’s a sense of the author trying out different ideas, seeing how far she can stretch them before they go snap, and this sense of playful experimentation also extends to her use of language. In “Things My Wife and I Found Hidden in Our House,” a sense of dread slowly builds as increasingly sinister objects come to light and their true significance becomes evident, and there’s a similarly gradual, queasy reveal in “My House is Out Where the Lights End” in which a daughter returns to her childhood home and begins to wonder whether her father was really who she thought he was, or someone else entirely. In the first, the stories are all variations on the well-worn haunted house theme – as the author observes, “our homes are a site of endless terror.” This being Logan, however, any tropes are thoroughly trampled. The book is divided into three roughly equal sections: The House, The Child and The Past.
All will burrow their way into your brain and not let go' Stylist 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.
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. Things We Say in the Dark by Kirsty Logan Paperback 17.95 Paperback 17.95 eBook 9. 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.
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.
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