Thin Places: Stories

A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, Thin Places is a gothic and atmospheric collection from the...
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Author: Kay Chronister
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Thin Places: Stories by Chronister, Kay

Thin Places: Stories

$17.95

Thin Places: Stories

$17.95
Author: Kay Chronister
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, Thin Places is a gothic and atmospheric collection from the national bestselling author of The Bog Wife. This beautiful reissue includes four additional stories.

A not-quite-human proprietor menaces guests at a hotel on the edge of a swamp. A composer visits a remote Slavic village where villagers perform soundless songs that accompany violent sacrifices. Four reclusive women conjour children out of unconventional materials in an unnerving mansion. The arrival of a lighthouse-keeper's daughter portends disaster for an insular island community with bizarre traditions.

With transcendent prose that celebrates her hypnotic and humane vision of the strange and supernatural, Kay Chronister weaves a dark tapestry of love, grief, death, and the exquisite pain and joy of life on the periphery of the familiar. The fifteen stories collected here, chronicle the lives of powerful women and children, wicked witches and demons, cursed artists and overlooked communities. Thin Places is a perfect companion to Chronister's national bestselling novel The Bog Wife and ideally suited for readers of Shirley Jackson and Carmen Maria Machado.

Author: Kay Chronister
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 10/07/2025
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
ISBN: 9781640097773

About the Author
KAY CHRONISTER is the author of The Bog Wife and Desert Creatures. Her short fiction has appeared in Strange Horizons, Clarkesworld, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, The Dark, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson and World Fantasy awards. She lives outside of Philadelphia.

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