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Also by Kay Chronister:

Thin Places, October 2025
Paperback / e-Book
The Bog Wife, October 2024
Hardcover / e-Book
Desert Creatures, November 2023
Trade Paperback / e-Book
Desert Creatures, November 2022
Hardcover / e-Book

THIN PLACES
By: Kay Chronister

Stories

Catapult
October 2025
On Sale: October 7, 2025
272 pages
ISBN: 1640097775
EAN: 9781640097773
Kindle: B0F1XJ9CYQ
Paperback / e-Book
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Horror

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.