Riding the Nightmare
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Publisher Description
Over a fifty-year career, Lisa Tuttle has earned a reputation as one of the greatest modern authors of horror and weird fiction. Her most recent collection, The Dead Hours of Night, was a finalist for the Stoker Award, and now she is back with a new collection of twelve unsettling tales, several of them never previously collected, including the long out-of-print and hard-to-find tale 'The Dragon's Bride'.
This volume contains the following stories: Riding the Nightmare, Bits and Pieces, ‘The Mezzotint’, After the End, The Third Person, The Wound, The Man in the Ditch, The Last Dare, A Home in the Sky, Voices in the Night, The Hungry Hotel, The Dragon’s Bride. Also included is a new introduction by Neil Gaiman.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
These 12 macabre stories from Tuttle (The Dead Hours of Night) abound with intensely unsettling explorations of the dark side of gender dynamics. In the title tale, a spurned woman's anger toward her lover and his pregnant wife manifests as a nightmarish entity with an uncontrollable life of its own. "The Third Person" follows a woman who allows her friend to conduct an adulterous liaison in her apartment, only to find herself later absorbed into a ménage à trois with their discarnate presences, which linger in her home. The narrator of "Bits and Pieces" assembles a companion who best suits her desires from the body parts past lovers have left behind in her bed. In each of these stories, Tuttle homes in with uncanny precision on the subtle power dynamics that shape how men and women relate to one another, seen nowhere more vividly than in "The Dragon's Bride," a stunning novella in which a contemporary romantic relationship is revealed to have roots in a classic folk legend dealing in traditional gender stereotypes. These stories are all the more memorable and terrifying for centering horrors that grow out of their characters' most vulnerable moments of shared intimacy. Tuttle delivers the goods.
