   FEMALE-VOICED STORIES THAT EXPLORE TERROR THAT LURKS BENEATH THE SURFACE OF THE SKIN. The Sinister Horror Company are extremely proud to be working with in releasing the critically acclaimed author’s third short story collection, I Spit Myself Out. The collection features eighteen stories, twelve original to this volume. The book will be released on 13th February 2021, the date of Galentines Day fitting for a collection that centres around the female experience as its core theme. The cover was designed and created by Justin Park.  Tracy has this to say about the book: “Writing this book has been an intense experience. I Spit Myself Out has been a work in progress for the last two years. In it I wanted to explore horror from the vantage point of the female experience; a quiet, everyday horror that centres on body anxiety, trauma, and illness, both mental and physical. I was interested in exploring that liminal space between the body and the world, and was very influenced by Julia Kristeva’s essay, The Powers of Horror, from which the title is derived. Working on this project I was drawn into the worlds of anatomy, pathography and medicine. Through this journey, I was lucky to work with Justin Park of the Sinister Horror Company who really understood what I wanted to do with this book and worked tirelessly with me; talking through ideas, editing, designing the look and feel, and ultimately producing this handsome volume. And so, in tandem with the Sinister Horror Company, I spit out this book into the world of horror.”  Tracy Fahey is an Irish writer of Gothic fiction. In 2017, her debut collection The Unheimlich Manoeuvre was shortlisted for a British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Her first novel, The Girl in the Fort, was released in 2017 by Fox Spirit Books. Her second collection, the folk horror New Music For Old Rituals was published in 2018 by Black Shuck Books. Fahey’s short fiction is published in over thirty American, British, Australian and Irish anthologies including Stephen Jones’ Best New Horror, Nightscript V, and Uncertainties III, and her work has been reviewed in the TLS and Black Static. In 2019, her short story ‘That Thing I Did’ received an Honourable Mention from Ellen Datlow in The Best Horror of the Year Volume Eleven. She holds a PhD on the Gothic in visual arts, and her non-fiction writing has been published in edited collections and journals. She has been awarded residencies in Ireland and Greece. I Spit Myself Out is her third collection. I Spit Myself Out by Tracy Fahey  Eighteen unsettling narratives map the female experience from puberty to menopause. I Spit Myself Out is a collection of female-voiced stories exploring the terror that lurks beneath the surface of the skin. In this collection, an Anatomical Venus opens to display her organs, clients of a mysterious clinic disappear one by one, a police investigation reveals family secrets, revenge is inked in the skin, and bodies pulsate in the throes of illness, childbirth and religious ritual.Disturbing and provoking in equal turns, I Spit Myself Out reinvents the body as a breeding ground of terrors that resurface inexorably in the present. I Spit Myself Out will be available on Kindle, Paperback from Amazon and the Sinister Horror Company website from the 13th February 2021. Pre-order to be made available in due course. Tracy’s debut collection, The Unheimlich Manoeuvre, is available via the Sinister Horror Company: https://www.sinisterhorrorcompany.com/the-unheimlich-manoeuvre For any enquiries or further information visit: SinisterHorrorCompany.com   Comments are closed.
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