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With all the brilliance, bravado, and wit of his award-winning debut, *A Questionable Shape* , Bennett Sims returns with an equally ambitious and wide-ranging collection of stories. A house-sitter alone in a cabin in the woods comes to suspect that the cabin may need to be "unghosted." A raconteur watches as his personal story is rewritten on an episode of This American Life. And in the collection's title story, a Hitchcock scholar sitting in on a Vertigo lecture is gradually driven mad by his own theory of cinema. In these eleven stories, Sims moves from slow-burn psychological horror to playful comedy, bringing us into the minds of people who are haunted by their environments, obsessions, and doubts. Told in electric, insightful prose, *White Dialogues* is a profound exploration of the way we uncover meaning in a complex, and sometimes terrifying, world. It showcases Sims's rare talent and confirms his reputation as one of the most exciting young writers at work today. House-sitting -- The bookcase -- Ekphrases -- Two guys watching Cujo on mute -- City of wolfmen -- Destroy all monsters -- Fables -- Za -- A premonition -- Radical closure -- White dialogues