White Dialogues

“Anyone who admires such pyrotechnics of language will find 21st-century echoes of Edgar Allan Poe in Sims’s portraits of paranoia and delusion, with their zodiacal narrowing and the maddening tungsten spin of their narratives.”
—Hannah Pittard, New York Times Book Review

“A brilliant… story collection by possibly the smartest and most inventive writer of his… generation.”
—Tony Tulathimutte, Bookforum

“One of the most genuinely terrifying, brilliant short story collections of the past decade. These stories are so smart and so unsettling; every sentence will unnerve you. He’s kind of like if Alfred Hitchcock and Brian Evenson raised a baby with David Foster Wallace and Nicholson Baker. Sims should be a household name in horror.”
—Carmen Maria Machado, Lit Hub

“Sims’s debut story collection elegantly explores the ordinary and fantastic terrors lurking in the deepest recesses of the psyche… This is a cerebral collection for fans of smart, philosophical fiction that is not afraid to follow thought experiments to their most chilling conclusions.”
—Publishers Weekly

“These 11 cerebral, uncanny stories marry horror, pop culture, metafiction, and cinema, and the result is a collection unlike any other in recent memory. If you like David Foster Wallace, Godzilla, or both, you need this book.”
—The Week

“There are some clever literary stunts scattered throughout this collection, but there’s no doubting the inventiveness of the author’s prose, pacing, and ability to build tension and occasionally dispel it with laughter… A deft collection of spooky fables that pivots from classic stylings to postmodern irony.”
—Kirkus

“Bennett Sims blurs the line between madness and genius in his cerebral story collection White Dialogues… Showcasing an ingenious and darkly subversive mind, White Dialogues is a head-trip worth taking.”
—Scott Neuffer, Shelf Awareness