Riding the Nightmare

by Lisa Tuttle, Neil Gaiman

Genres: Short Stories; Horror

Synopsis

Over the past few decades, Lisa Tuttle has quietly established her place as one of today’s very best writers of weird and horror fiction. Her previous collection, The Dead Hours of Night, was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award, and now she is back with this new volume containing twelve more unsettling tales.

In ‘Bits and Pieces’, a woman is surprised to find her lover has left behind his foot in her bed, but it’s only the first of many macabre mementoes. ‘The Wound’ tells of a platonic friendship between two male coworkers that begins to turn into something very different when one of them notices he has started to bleed. In ‘The Mezzotint’, a woman becomes fascinated by a strange engraving that reminds her of an old M.R. James tale. These and nine other weird and often frightening tales showcase Lisa Tuttle’s unique ability to disturb and unnerve her readers.

This collection also includes the rare novella ‘The Dragon’s Bride’, newly revised and expanded for this edition, and an introduction by Neil Gaiman, who has called Lisa Tuttle ‘the finest practitioner of unsettling fiction writing today’.

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Release date: August 22, 2023

Publisher: Valancourt Books

Print pages: 263