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Kirsty Logan

Kirsty Logan is a professional daydreamer. Her first book, The Rental Heart & Other Fairytales, is out now. Her second, The Gracekeepers, will be out in Spring 2015 in the UK, US and Canada.

Genres: Fantasy, Literary Fiction, General Fiction

Novels

   The Gracekeepers (2015)
   The Gloaming (2018)
   Now She Is Witch (2023)

Collections

   Mystery Times Ten 2011 (2011) (with others)
   The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales (2014)
   A Portable Shelter (2015)
   Kirsty Logan: Found Press Stories Volume One (2016)
   The Psychology of Animals Swallowed Alive (2016)
   Things We Say in the Dark (2019)
   Hag: Forgotten Folktales Retold (2020) (with others)
   Furies (2023) (with others)

Novellas and Short Stories

Dog-Bait (2015)

Series contributed to

FPQ
   1. Complete Collection 1 (2011) (with others)
   2. Complete Collection 2 (2014) (with others)
   6. FPQ 6 (2013) (with others)

Hometown Tales
Hometown Tales: Glasgow (2018) (with Paul McQuade)

Non fiction show

Kirsty Logan recommends

My Darling Dreadful Thing (2024)
Johanna van Veen
"This book got under my skin, all the way down to the marrow. It's as dark as a grave and throbbing with queer desire. I won't forget it."

Hazardous Spirits (2023)
Anbara Salam
"A darkly sparkling jewel of a book: haunting, vivid and stuffed full of secrets."

Music in the Dark (2023)
Sally Magnusson
"I absolutely loved this book. An important and brutal historical event - but also a tender and unusual love story. It gave me writer envy."

For Thy Great Pain Have Mercy on My Little Pain (2023)
Victoria MacKenzie
"Intimately observed, lyrically written and meticulously researched. I loved this insight into the lives of medieval women."

Orpheus Builds a Girl (2022)
Heather Parry
"Heather Parry is a literary star of the future. I've been a fan of her writing for years, and this novel is all I hoped for and more. Bold, sinister and debate-provoking."

The Seawomen (2022)
Chloe Timms
"An unsettling and lushly-written reimagining of witch trials, exploring fertility, control and how what we believe can save us - or destroy us. The Handmaid's Tale meets The Shape of Water."

Our Wives Under the Sea (2022)
Julia Armfield
"Reading this book is like diving into the deepest depths of the ocean and finding beautiful and disturbing wonders."

Parallel Hells (2022)
Leon Craig
"Trust me: you want to read this. It's the queer horror book of your dreams."

Deep Wheel Orcadia (2021)
Harry Josephine Giles
"I can't remember the last time I was this beguiled, this engrossed and this inspired by a book. It's like nothing else I've ever read. It was a joy to feel so entranced by the possibilities and complexities of each and every word. Harry Josephine Giles is a true original and a vital voice - don't miss this."

The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (2021)
Mariana Enríquez
"Rotting little ghosts, heartbeat fetishes, curses and witches and meat: Each of these stories is a luscious, bewitching nightmare. Each one builds up a steady, thrilling dread—until the final lines, when the true horror is revealed. I adore this book."

Harrow Lake (2020)
Kat Ellis
"Scream meets The Babadook in small-town USA. This book made my retro-horror-loving heart sing."

You Let Me In (2020)
Camilla Bruce
"A glorious, pitch-black fairytale of a book."

Oligarchy (2019)
Scarlett Thomas
"An intricate black jewel of a novel. Weeks later I'm still thinking about it."

The Lost Queen (2018)
(Lost Queen, book 1)
Signe Pike
"Outlander meets Camelot – but with the focus firmly on the lives and loves of women. A sweeping, magical tale of a rarely-told part of Scotland's history."

Beloved Poison (2016)
(Jem Flockhart, book 1)
E S Thomson
"ES Thompson's Jem Flockhart books are the best I've read in years. Jem is just my kind of heroine: scarred, smart, complex, and unapologetically queer."

More recommendations

Anthologies containing stories by Kirsty Logan

The Other Side of Never (2023)
Dark Tales from the World of Peter & Wendy
edited by
Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan

Best of British Fantasy 2019 (2020)
(Best of British Fantasy)
edited by
Jared Shurin

Best of British Fantasy 2018 (2019)
(Best of British Fantasy)
edited by
Jared Shurin

More anthologies

Awards

Saltire Literary Awards Best Novel nominee (2014) : The Rental Heart and Other Fairytales

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