Here in the Night

“ Turkewitz’ s nimble prose switches on a dime between soft and sharp, poignant and brutal, alien and achingly familiar... This is a triumph.” -Publisher’ s Weekly “ These are… ghost stories about the power of ghost stories, the way they reflect and transmute shared fears” -New York Times The thirteen stories in Here in the Night are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced. With psychological insight and finely crafted prose, Here in the Night investigates the joys and constraints of womanhood, of queerness, and of intimacy. Preoccupied with all manner of hauntings, these stories traverse a boarding school in the Vermont woods, the jagged coast of Maine, an attic in suburban Massachusetts, an elevator stuck between floors, and the side of an unlit highway in rural South Carolina. At the center of almost every story is the landscape of night, with all its tantalizing and terrifying potential. These stories will stay with you.

The New York Times Book Review

"These are, in other words, ghost stories about the power of ghost stories, the way they reflect and transmute shared fears."

Debutiful

"Turkewitz nails the atmosphere of every story and flexes her muscles with thoughtful characters you'll want more pages of. This feels like an instant re-readable collection once the sky turns gray and leaves start falling."

Book Description

The thirteen stories in Rebecca Turkewitz's debut collection, Here in the Night, are engrossing, strange, eerie, and emotionally nuanced.

About the Author

Rebecca Turkewitz is a writer and high school English teacher living in Portland, Maine. She is the author of Here in the Night (Black Lawrence Press, July 2023), a collection of thirteen spooky literary short stories. Her fiction and humor writing have appeared in The Normal School, The Masters Review, Chicago Quarterly Review, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, Best Microfiction 2023, The New Yorker's Daily Shouts, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in fiction from The Ohio State University.

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