A Nest of Nightmares
On sale
24th October 2013
Price: £1.99
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ebook / ISBN-13: 9781782068709
A masterful collection of stories ‘guaranteed to leave you strongly disquieted’ says Neil Gaiman.
What happens when your everyday life begins to skew towards the inexplicable and insane? What do you do when your already fractured normality shatters? Featuring all female protagonists, A Nest of Nightmares will take you on a journey through unease and disquiet.
This classic of modern horror by award-winning author Lisa Tuttle’ is ‘the most significant book of its kind to take a consistently feminist approach to horror fiction’ (Jessica Amanda Salmonson)
Settle down to a collection of contemporary chills and shivers by one of the best horror writers in the world.
Includes the stories ‘Bug House’, ‘Dollburger’, ‘Community Property’, ‘Flying to Byzantium’, ‘Treading the Maze’, ‘The Horse Lord’, ‘The Other Mother’, ‘Need’, ‘The Memory of Wood’, ‘A Friend in Need’,’ Stranger in the House’, ‘Sun City’ and ‘The Nest’.
What happens when your everyday life begins to skew towards the inexplicable and insane? What do you do when your already fractured normality shatters? Featuring all female protagonists, A Nest of Nightmares will take you on a journey through unease and disquiet.
This classic of modern horror by award-winning author Lisa Tuttle’ is ‘the most significant book of its kind to take a consistently feminist approach to horror fiction’ (Jessica Amanda Salmonson)
Settle down to a collection of contemporary chills and shivers by one of the best horror writers in the world.
Includes the stories ‘Bug House’, ‘Dollburger’, ‘Community Property’, ‘Flying to Byzantium’, ‘Treading the Maze’, ‘The Horse Lord’, ‘The Other Mother’, ‘Need’, ‘The Memory of Wood’, ‘A Friend in Need’,’ Stranger in the House’, ‘Sun City’ and ‘The Nest’.
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Reviews
She brings to the literature a subtlety and power, which, sometimes shading into horror, is a quite distinctive voice demanding to be heard . . . exceptional, very female, art.
Lisa Tuttle's best fiction is like a slow settling of vast planes of thought and emotion-luminous, quiet, wry, and often bitter.
Tuttle is a sweet relief . . . Tuttle's books are messy and chaotic. They feel desperate. They feel human. They feel like real life.
I found the collection far more harrowing than most modern horror; not only because of the almost unbroken succession of downbeat endings, but also because the accurate evocation of the horror of being placed in an untenable position, of a relationship going wrong, of a home no longer being a place of safety and comfort, of loneliness, anxiety and fear, hits closer to us than fear of Lovecraftian beasties, brain-eating zombies or giant rats (mice, crabs, dogs, newts, voles, and silverfish ad nauseum) can ever do. Tuttle's horror is not cathartic. It isn't reassuring. But she surely does show you her view of the monster.
A Nest of Nightmares is without doubt one of the finest collections of horror stories to appear for many years. On the basis of this volume alone, Lisa Tuttle has become a major force in macabre fiction
The best contemporary horror collection published in the last year
The most significant book of its kind to take a consistently feminist approach to horror fiction.
Lisa Tuttle never disappoints
Lisa Tuttle is a subtle and clever writer whose fantasy deals with the world we all believe we have sensed from time to time out of the corners of our eyes.
This John W. Campbell Award-winning author remains one of fantasy's best