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Kirstyn McDermott

    Kirstyn McDermott crafts narratives that delve into the unsettling and the psychologically complex, exploring the darker facets of human nature and societal boundaries. Her distinctive style is characterized by an unnerving atmosphere and a sharp perception of the hidden motivations that drive characters. McDermott's fiction often interrogates conventional morality, presenting readers with challenging perspectives. Her ongoing academic work focusing on retold fairy tales suggests a continued fascination with reimagining familiar narratives through a contemporary, often unsettling, lens.

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    Hard Places
    • Hard Places

      • 314 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      "Kirstyn McDermott's prose is darkly magical, insidious and insistent. Once her words get under your skin, they are there to stay." -Angela Slatter, author of All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns Hard Places collects the very best of Kirstyn McDermott's short fiction written over the past twenty years along with a previously unpublished novella. From unsettling obsessions and brutal body horror to unexpected monsters and ghosts drifting through suburbia, these stories run the gamut of horror and the contemporary gothic. By turns harrowing, provocative and poignant, this collection will haunt you long after the last page is turned.

      Hard Places
    • Horrorfans werden diesen Thriller mit seinen unglaublichen Wendungen verschlingen! In der Tiefe seiner Seele hat Alex sich Madigans Tod gewünscht. Doch erst als seine egozentrische Ex Selbstmord begeht, begreift er, dass er mit ihr die Liebe seines Lebens verloren hat. Aber warum beginnt er, im Kopf plötzlich Madigans Stimme zu hören? Woher kommen seine seltsamen Blackouts? Und welche Verbin dung hatte Madigan zu den geheimnisvollen 'Söhnen des Belials'? Alex findet heraus, was wirklich in jener Nacht geschehen ist, als Madigan ihn fast umgebracht hätte. Und ihm wird klar, dass er seitdem in seinem Körper nicht mehr allein ist.

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