Riding the Nightmare
by Lisa Tuttle, Neil Gaiman
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Pub Date Aug 22 2023 | Archive Date Jun 30 2023
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Description
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 mementos. '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. The protagonist of 'The Hungry Hotel' is contacted years later by an old one-night stand and goes to meet him at a strange hotel, with unforeseen consequences. 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'.
Advance Praise
“Lisa Tuttle is, quietly and unsensationally, the finest practitioner of unsettling fiction writing today. She can make you doubt reality, she can chill your flesh and walk you into the darkness with gentle, perfectly constructed prose. Her authorial voice is so sensible that it's easy to forget, over and over, in story after story, that she's one of the dangerous ones, the kind of writer that somebody really should have warned you about, and now it is (as it so often is is in Tuttle's fiction) much, much too late.” - Neil Gaiman
Available Editions
| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9781954321892 |
| PRICE | $18.99 (USD) |
| PAGES | 236 |
Available on NetGalley
Featured Reviews
Daisy H, Reviewer
Thank you netgalley and publishers for providing this eARC for me to review :)
Riding the Nightmare lives up to it's name. 12 short horror stories that will each take you for a ride. She does a great job of setting up a story, getting you hooked, and turning it around to a dark ending in a short span of time. I've read collections of short horror stories before and this was one of the better ones, with only one below four stars. I definitely recommend this for some quicker reads.
Riding the Nightmare: 5⭐
Bits and Pieces: 5⭐
The Mezzotint: 4.5 ⭐
After the End: 3⭐
The Third Person: 4.5⭐
The Wound: 5⭐
The Man in the Ditch: 5⭐
The Last Dare: 4⭐
Home in the Sky: 4⭐ (cute, but not scary)
Voices in the Night: 4⭐
The Hungry Hotel: 4⭐
The Dragon's Bride: 5⭐
Kasey E, Reviewer
Omg!!! Let me start by saying the cover fits the book perfectly. It’s weird and ominous which are words I would use to describe this collection. The collection is comprised of short stories previously published by the author. There is good variety in the stories so there is something that most horror readers would like. It was the perfect weird ambiguous horror I love
My favorite stories were Bits and Pieces and Voices In The Night
Thanks NetGalley and Valencourt Books for a copy of this book in exchange for review
Dalton M, Reviewer
Like everyone else has mentioned the cover of this collection is amazing. Onto the stories included within the collection, they were all very good and definitely had points that even scared me a little bit. Definitely one to go out of your way to pick up and read.
Kay O, Reviewer
Usually anthologies have stronger better stories and then stories that I don't enjoy as much. This one, however, had a full roster of top notch winners. Chilling, spooky, and brilliant.
Bookseller 732304
Very interesting book. Original and weird like I like my books to be. The writing was also very beautiful! I enjoy it!
Shasta M, Bookseller
4 stars
First off that cover 😍
This book has a great variety of quite unsettling and wonderfully creepy stories. The writing is top notch and the stories were all good (which is rare). I really need to get my hands on more by Lisa Tuttle asap.
Chelsea F, Reviewer
Book : Riding the Nightmare
Author : Lisa Tuttle, Neil Gaiman
Pub Date : 22 Aug 2023
Thank you NetGalley, Valancourt Books & the author for the opportunity to read and review this book.
I am a sucker for short horror stories and these are just what I needed! Creeptastic & unsettling. The cover is perfection and fits the mood of the book.
With these kinds of books, I love reading one sometimes two at a time in the evening. This is the perfect all year long book to have on hand or to set out during the fall/spooky months.
You absolutely will not be disappointed with this collection of stories. I will recommend this to all my spooky babes.
SARA M, Reviewer
Thank you for NetGalley and Valancourt Books for a copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.
First, I need to mention how much I love this cover. It is absolutely mesmerizing and it pulled me into the book. Riding the Nightmare is a collection of previously published short stories by the author. The stories are fantastically weird and terrifying and most of the stories show the complications of relationships (romantic and friendship) and in one case, parenting.
My favorite stories were:
Riding the Nightmare: Children just get in the way!
Bits and Pieces: Oh, hey you left a body part in my bed!
The Mezzotint: Did that picture just move? I loved this story so much. Even though it was perfect I still wish it was a bit longer.
The Dragon's Bride: Maybe a bit of amnesia isn't too bad!
The author did a great job of telling such disturbing tales. I was completely unsettled at times. Highly recommend to readers who love horror and downright weird tales.
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