Thin Places - Stories

A finalist for the Shirley Jackson Award, 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.

Product details

• Authors: Kay Chronister
• Publisher: Counterpoint
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 07.10.2025
• EAN: 9781640097773
• ISBN: 978-1-64009-777-3
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), FICTION / Short Stories (single author), FICTION / Family Life / General, Short Stories, FICTION / Horror, Family life fiction, Horror & ghost stories, Horror and supernatural fiction