The Dark Dark by Samantha Hunt

The acclaimed novelist Samantha Hunt’s first collection of stories blends the literary and the fantastic and brings us characters on the verge—girls turning into women, women turning into deer, people doubling or becoming ghosts, and more

These short stories are unsettling, as promised, but in a vaguely nauseating body horror kind of way and not in a clever Edgar Allen Poe sort of way. There's a bit of a feminist bent but also most the women just want to have sex and have babies which feels so reductive. And the writing was perfectly fine but not particularly for me.

Excellent! I remember reading The Invention of Everything Else and loving that too. Personal favorites: Beast, Yellow, Love Machine and (my absolute favorite Cortes the Killer).