The title speaks volumes this week. It’s a mission statement.

Kirsty Logan is the master of certain kind of edgy, on-the-margins fiction, Queer in every meaning of the word. She can be witchy and folkloric, or contemporary and cutting edge – and all of that range is showcased in her new collection, No & Other Love Stories.

We talk about female desire and monstrous fantasy, formal experimentation and the personal logic of stories…and some reassuringly unsettling focus on the erotics of human flesh and menstruation.

Don’t say we shy away here at Talking Scared.

Enjoy!

Other books mentioned:

• Things We Say in the Dark (2019), by Kirsty Logan
• The Unfamiliar: A Queer Motherhood Memoir (2023), by Kirsty Logan
• “Skeleton,” by Ray Bradbury (1945), by Ray Bradbury
• Carrion Crow (2025), by Heather Parry
• “Tiptoe,” in Not a Speck of Light (2024), by Laird Barron

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