Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | A Storm of Stories | 2016 | K.B. Jensen | Buy |
| 2 | Love and Other Monsters in the Dark | 2022 | K.B. Jensen | Buy |
| 3 | Stories of the Unknown and Unspoken | 2023 | K.B. Jensen | Buy |
K.B. Jensen’s three short story collections explore the spaces where everyday life meets the uncanny. A Storm of Stories (2016) was her first collection, followed by Love and Other Monsters in the Dark (2022) and Stories of the Unknown and Unspoken (2023). The titles signal her interest in what lurks at the edges of the familiar.
There was a six-year gap between A Storm of Stories and Love and Other Monsters in the Dark, but the second and third collections came out just a year apart. Jensen’s writing tends toward the literary end of speculative fiction, with careful language and an interest in mood over action. The collections stand alone from one another and can be read in any order.
Her standalone novel Painting With Fire (2014) came before any of these collections, making it her earliest published work. Readers who want to track her development as a writer can start there and move forward through the short fiction.