“Kiste cracks open the walls built to contain women and lets the spirits inside roar. A haunting, a liberation, and a searing testament to the women we tried to bury and the homes that still remember them.” –Lindy Ryan, author of Bless Your Heart and Dollface

“Ethereal and feminist, Gwendolyn Kiste’s fiction is a beautiful monstrosity pressed under the glass of mesmeric prose and razor-sharp wit. The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own is at once both celebratory and sorrowful, the kind of horror that follows you home, slides next to you in bed, and entangles itself about you all night.” – Rebecca Rowland, author of Eminence Front and Unsettled Score

“The Haunted Houses She Calls Her Own isn't just a collection of stories, it's a catharsis. This is a book that screams not in fear, but in rage, and turns the darkness back on itself. Gwendolyn Kiste is a true master of horror that both hurts and heals. Sharp and bloody in the best of ways.” – A.C. Wise, author of Wendy, Darling and Ballad of the Bone Road

“…abominations, nuclear disasters, ghosts, murderers and women sick of silence conduct an intricate dance. This collection pries open the cracks in the pavement to show stars that breathe in between. A space where monsters and the monstrous-adjacent might find a home. Kiste’s latest is excellent, bold and eclectic.”
– Angela “A.G.” Slatter, award-winning author of The Cold House