The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own
"Truth is rarely as convenient as silence."
The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own enters a world possessed by recriminations from bygone eras, where the regrets and malice of years past still reverberate and shape our doom. Here, morally complex women and queer antiheroines swim against the current of a social structure that serves as a spectral prison in these layered stories of the weird and the Other.
Known for crafting bold metafictional narratives that grapple with challenging social issues, Gwendolyn Kiste's unwavering voice deftly weaves a siren's song of resilience and survival. Included among the short stories in this collection are the Bram Stoker Award-winning "The Eight People Who Murdered Me (Excerpt From Lucy Westenra's Diary)," "The Girls From the Horror Movie," "The Sea Witch of the World's Fair," and other riveting new gothic tales of body horror, the supernatural, and unapologetic resistance.
"The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own isn't just a collection of stories, it's a catharsis... Gwendolyn Kiste is a true master of horror that both hurts and heals. Sharp and bloody in the best of ways." -- A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling and Ballad of the Bone Road
"Ethereal and feminist... The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own is at once both celebratory and sorrowful, the kind of horror that follows you home, slides next to you in bed, and entangles itself about you all night." -- Rebecca Rowland, author of Eminence Front and Unsettled Score
"This collection pries open the cracks in the pavement to show stars that breathe in between. A space where monsters and the monstrous-adjacent might find a home. Kiste's latest is excellent, bold and eclectic."
-- Angela "A.G." Slatter, award-winning author of The Cold House
"Kiste cracks open the walls built to contain women and lets the spirits inside roar. A haunting, a liberation, and a searing testament to the women we tried to bury and the homes that still remember them." -- Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart and Dollface
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