The Dark Dark Stories [Paperback]

A Best Book of the Year:NPR,Vogue,The Huffington Post,The Chicago Review of Books,The National Post,Electric Literature,Kirkus

Wields such a subtle and alien power . . . Wonderfully spooky. Jia Tolentino,The New Yorker

Afeminist manifesto threaded through imaginative fiction; its the most evocative, impressive collection Ive read this year. Daniel Johnson,The Paris Review

From the acclaimed author ofMr. Splitfoot, Samantha Hunt's first collection of stories,The Dark Dark, blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the vergegirls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more

Step intoThe Dark Dark, where an award-winning, acclaimed novelist debuts her first collection of short stories and conjures entire universes in just a few pagesconjures, splits in half, mines for humor, destroys with absurdity, and regenerates. In prose that sparkles and haunts, Samantha Hunt playfully pushes the bounds of the expected and fills every corner with vibrant life, imagining numerous ways in which the weird might poke its way through the mundane. Each of these ten haunting, inventive tales brings us to the brinkof creation, mortality and immortality, infidelity and transformation, technological innovation and historical revision, loneliness and communion, and every kind of love.

Laced with lyricism, hope, Hunts characteristic sly wit, and her unflinching gaze into the ordinary horrors of human existence,The Dark Darkcelebrates the mysteries and connections that swirl around us.Its never all the same,Hunt tells us.It changes a tiny bit every time.See for yourself.

Winner of the2019 St. Francis College Literary Prize
A 2018 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction Finalist
A 2017 Shirley Jackson Awared l3S