My Stalkers: Stories

Cementing her mastery across genres, Catherine Lacey returns with a new collection of visceral and absurdist short fiction.

Across the nine stories in My Stalkers, Catherine Lacey’s second collection of short fiction, women are constantly confronted with the thrill, banality, and horror of becoming someone else—or no one at all—on account of men, technology, bureaucracy, or their own folly.

A woman finds a coat that isn’t hers in the house, and its appearance sets off a chain of events that...