The womanhood they exude is fleshy and hungry, although we are yet to see a fully intersectional representation of womanhood (or, indeed, authors). The women in these pages claim a type of agency (not least sexual) that the horror genre usually denies them. Taken together, this direction in contemporary horror (or horror-adjacent writing) swaps jump scares for the slow burn of creeping discomfit. Things We Say in the Dark sits in the same corner of contemporary fiction as Julia Armfield’s Salt Slow, Carmen Maria Machado’s Her Body and Other Parties, and Eliza Clark’s Boy Parts in the same linguistic witching hour as Rebecca Tamas’ collection Witch and the in same crack between reality and fiction as Julia Ducournau’s film Raw. A brooding horror seeps throughout the collection, with stories at turns romantic, sweet, horrible and surreal. ‘Girls are Always Hungry When all the Men are Bite-Size’ is a short story nestled in the middle of Kirsty Logan’s Things We Say in the Dark, an eerie collection that reels in its readers like a spider on her web.
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