Search Worlds Without End

Table of Contents:

• No Regrets - (1985) - shortstory
• Wives - (1979) - shortstory
• The Family Monkey - (1977) - novella
• Mrs T - (1976) - shortstory
• The Bone Flute - (1981) - shortstory
• A Spaceship Built of Stone - (1980) - shortstory
• The Cure - (1984) - shortstory
• The Hollow Man - (1979) - novelette
• The Other Kind - (1984) - novelette
• Birds of the Moon - (1979) - shortstory

Tiptree nominated short story. Appeared in Crank! #4, Autumn 1994. It has been anthologized in The Best New Horror: Volume 7 (1996) and Flying Cups and Saucers: Gender Explorations in Science Fiction and Fantasy (1998), and collected in Ghosts & Other Lovers (2002).

As soon as they met, Dinah and Gabriel knew they would never be apart again. But, just one year after they married, Gabriel plunged to a violent and senseless death.

Ten years on, Dinah believes she has moved forward enough to return to New Orleans, the place where she lived with Gabriel, and deal with the ghosts of her past.

Until she finds a young boy with a remarkably familiar face who calls out her name, even though she's never met him before... it may be that Dinah is ready to let go of the past, but Gabriel definitely isn't.

Clare is 33, unmarried and an accountant. She is haunted by several failed affairs and guilt over the death of her younger brother. After a nervous breakdown, Clare becomes obsessed with the idea that she inhabits a quantum universe where there are many other Clare's - all with different lives.

Fifteen stories deal with boundaries between the sexes, facsimile humans, dreams of the dead, nightmares, and marriage in the future.

Table of Contents:

• Heart's Desire - (1989) - shortstory
• The Wound - (1987) - shortstory
• Husbands - (1990) - shortstory
• Riding the Nightmare - (1986) - shortstory
• Jamie's Grave - (1987) - shortstory
• The Spirit Cabinet - (1988) - shortstory
• The Colonization of Edward Beal - (1987) - shortstory
• Lizard Lust - (1990) - shortfiction
• Skin Deep - (1989) - shortstory
• A Birthday - (1987) - shortstory
• A Mother's Heart: A True Bear Story - (1978) - shortstory
• The Other Room - (1982) - shortstory
• Dead Television - (1990) - shortstory
• Bits and Pieces - (1990) - shortstory
• Memories of the Body - (1987) - shortstory

When Danni chooses to spend the school holidays with her godmother, Claire, she thinks she will find a kindred spirit. She doesn't bank on meeting the mysterious Finlay Black, or Claire being on the look out for the Panther of Argyll - the beast that supposedly roams the woods around her cottage.

And she doesn't bank on discovering that she has the 'animal spirit' - a rare and unique ability that not only provides an empathy with animals, but the ability to become them.

But there is a price for letting the animal within loose. Panthers are wild, primal, strong... and most of all free: why remain human when all of this is within your grasp?

This short story originally appeared in the anthology Edison's Frankenstein (2009) edited by Nick Gevers and Peter Crowther, and was reprinted in Lightspeed, September 2013. It is included in the collection Objects in Dreams (2012).

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

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.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction - essay by Lisa Tuttle
• Lightning Rod - shortstory by Melanie Tem
• Boobs (Revised) - shortstory by Suzy McKee Charnas
• Walls - poem by R. M. Lamming
• Anzac Day - shortstory by Cherry Wilder
• The Night Wolf - shortstory by Karen Joy Fowler
• The Ancestress - shortstory by Josephine Saxton
• Getting Away from It All - shortstory by Ann Walsh
• Loophole - shortstory by Terry McGarry
• The Companion - (1978) - shortstory by Joan Aiken
• Mr. Elphinstone's Hands - novelette by Lisa Tuttle
• Serena Sees - shortstory by G. K. Sprinkle
• Trick or Treat - shortstory by Pauline E. Dungate
• Ticanau's Child - novelette by Sherry Coldsmith
• The Dream - shortstory by Dyan Sheldon
• Listening - shortstory by Melissa Mia Hall
• Pregnant - shortstory by Joyce Carol Oates
• Hantu-Hantu - novelette by Anne Goring
• Notes on Contributors - essay by Lisa Tuttle

Nebula Award nominated short story. It originally appeared in Amazing Stories, March 1976. There are no other publications known at this time.

Venn, a fickle and restless young musician, is drawn to the "lost planet" of Habille where, it is said, human nature has changed, and love once experienced can never die.

This story was announced the winner of the 1982 Nebula Award in the category short story. Tuttle, who had tried to have the story withdrawn from consideration, subsequently refused to accept the award.

The story was originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, May 1981 and can also be found in the collection A Spaceship Built of Stone and Other Stories (1987).

This short story originally appeared in Lightspeed, March 2013. It can also be found in the anthology The Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror 2014, edited by Paula Guran.

Read the full story for free at Lightspeed.

From award-winning author Lisa Tuttle comes a riveting novel that combines the contemporary story of one man's search for a missing young woman with history's most enduring legends of the disappeared. Gripping and unforgettable, here is a spellbinding mix of the mysteries that inhabit our everyday lives-and a mind-bending exploration of what happens when someone vanishes without a trace.

Ever since his father disappeared when he was nine years old, Ian Kennedy has had a penchant for stories about missing people-and a knack for finding them. Now he's a private investigator with an impressive track record. But when a woman enters his London office and asks him to find her lost daughter, Ian faces a case he fears he cannot solve-and one he knows he must.

Laura Lensky's stunning twenty-one-year-old daughter, Peri, has been missing for over two years-a lifetime, under the circumstances. But when Ian learns the details of her disappearance, he discovers eerie parallels to an obscure Celtic myth-and to the haunting case that launched his career, an early success he's never fully been able to explain. Though Ian suspects Peri may have chosen to vanish, his curiosity leads him to take on the search. Soon he finds himself drawing not only from the mysteries that have preoccupied his adulthood, but from the fables and folklore that pervaded his youth. What follows is a journey that takes Ian and those who care for Peri into the Highlands of Scotland, as the unknowns of the past and present merge in the case-and in their lives.

Rich in pathos and steeped in secrets, The Mysteries opens a thought-provoking door from one world into the heart of another, where some of our most perplexing enigmas-and their answers-are startlingly alive.

Agnes Grey is troubled by her mother's depressive and erratic mood-swings, so the young girl retreats into a delusional dream state where she finds that made-up relationships are more gratifying and often more tangible than her real ones. As Agnes enters adulthood, her fantastical relationships and their consequences become deceivingly real, with a chilling and bizarre aftermath.

Appleton is a small town nestled on the coast of Scotland. Though it was once famous for the apples it produced, these days it's a shadow of its former self. But in a hidden orchard a golden apple dangles from a silver bough, an apple believed lost forever. The apple is part of a legend, promising either eternal happiness to the young couple who eat from it secure in their love - or a curse, for those who take its gift for granted. Now, as the town teeters on the edge of decline, the old rituals have been forgotten and the mists are rolling in. And in the mist, something is stirring...

WFA nominated novella.

The narrator of this creepy but feministically delicious novella, an early 21st-century novelist, decides to write the biography of Helen Ralston, an all-but-forgotten 20th-century novelist she has long admired. In the late 1920s, Helen studied painting with W.E. Logan. Logan painted her as Circe, and Helen painted herself as an island titled My Death. When they parted for good, both turned to writing. Willy became famous; Helen did not. The narrator of My Death intends to do something about that. But first she must solve the mystery of Helen's relationship with Willy and why Helen titled her self-portrait My Death.

Lisa Tuttle's stories examine the nuances of relationship and family dynamics. Her work has been commended by such contemporaries as Neil Gaiman, George R.R. Martin, Michael Moorcock, Kelley Armstrong, Robert Holdstock and Dean R. Koontz. She is a winner of both the John W Campbell Award (1974) and the 1989 BSFA Award for best short story. In 1982 she was also awarded a Nebula, which she refused on a point of principle. Drawing largely on her output over the past decade, Objects in Dreams is Lisa at her best; a stunning collection of tales that switch effortlessly between SF, dark fantasy, and horror.

Table of Contents:

• Dreams and Stories: An Introduction - essay
• Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear - (2011) - shortstory
• Old Mr. Boudreaux - (2007) - shortstory
• A Cold Dish - (2000) - shortfiction
• Ragged Claws - (2009) - shortstory
• In Translation - (1989) - shortfiction
• The Man in the Ditch - (2011) - shortstory
• Shelf-Life - (2011) - shortstory
• Paul's Mother - shortfiction
• Closet Dreams - (2007) - shortstory

Should you find yourself in need of a discreet investigation into any sort of mystery, crime or puzzling circumstances, think of Jesperson and Lane...

For several years Miss Lane was companion, amanuensis, collaborator and friend to the lady known to the Psychical Societs only as Miss X - until she discovered that Miss X was actually a fraud.

Now she works with Mr Jasper Jesperson as a consulting detective, but the cases are not as plentiful as they might be and money is getting tight - until a case that reaches across the entirety of London lands in their laps.

It concerns a somnambulist, the disappearance of several mediums, and a cat stuck up a tree... the links with the cat are negligible, but there is only one team that can investigate the seemingly supernatural disappearances of the psychics and defy the nefarious purpose behind them: Jesperson and Lane, at your service.

"Witch!" cries the young man after stumbling unexpectedly into the London address of the consulting-detective partnership of Mr. Jasper Jesperson and Miss Lane. He makes the startling accusation while pointing toward Miss Lane... then he drops dead. Thus begins the strangest case yet to land--quite literally--on the doorstep of Jesperson and Lane.

According to the coroner, Charles Manning died of a heart attack--despite being in perfect health. Could he have been struck down by a witch's spell? The late Mr. Manning's address book leads Jesperson and Lane to the shrieking pits of Aylmerton, an ancient archaeological site reputed to be haunted by a vengeful ghost. There they sift through the local characters, each more suspicious than the last: Manning's associate, Felix Ott, an English folklore enthusiast; Reverend Ringer, a fierce opponent of superstition; and the Bulstrode sisters, a trio of beauties with a reputation for witchcraft.

But when an innocent child goes missing, suddenly Jesperson and Lane aren't merely trying to solve one murder--they're racing to prevent another.

In a career spanning almost 50 years, Lisa Tuttle has proven herself a master of the weird tale, and now this new collection of twelve unsettling stories - some never previously collected - offers readers a chance to discover some of her finest work.

In 'Replacements', a woman adopts a monstrous pet, with unforeseen consequences. In 'Born Dead', a stillborn child mysteriously continues to grow just like a living one. 'My Pathology' (whose ending Thomas Tessier has cited as one of the best in the history of horror) explores the sinister results of a couple's alchemical experiments. And a book lover in 'The Book That Finds You' has her life changed in strange ways by the discovery of a rare horror book at a second-hand bookshop. In these weird and chilling tales, Tuttle is at her diabolical best.

This edition features an introduction by Lisa Kröger, and each story is specially introduced by the author.

Contents:

• 'Objects in Dreams May Be Closer Than They Appear' (2011)
• 'Closet Dreams' (2007)
• 'Born Dead' (2013)
• 'Replacements' (1992)
• 'A Birthday' (1993)
• 'My Pathology' (1998)
• 'Food Man' (1994)
• 'Mr Elphinstone's Hands' (1990)
• 'The Dream Detective' (2013)
• 'Where the Stones Grow' (1980)
• 'Vegetable Love' (2017)
• 'The Book That Finds You' (2015)

Table of Contents:

• Bug House - (1980) - shortstory
• Dollburger - (1973) - shortstory
• Community Property - (1980) - shortstory
• Flying to Byzantium - (1985) - novelette
• Treading the Maze - (1981) - shortstory
• The Horse Lord - (1977) - shortstory
• The Other Mother - (1980) - novelette
• Need - (1981) - shortstory
• The Memory of Wood - (1982) - shortstory
• A Friend in Need - (1981) - shortstory
• Stranger in the House - (1972) - shortstory
• Sun City - (1980) - shortstory
• The Nest - (1983) - novelette

When Sarah breaks up with the partner she has shared her home with for the last year, she is determined to make a new start. And the house she finds, nestled in the woods just back from the road, seems like the perfect place to do that. Almost from the moment she looks at it, Sarah knows that it should belong to her.

But this house has invisible eyes that watch Sarah from the darkness. For the previous owner, Valerie, is keeping a secret: one that involves the house, a ritual... and a spirit called back from the grave.

Hugo Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in two installmetns in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, in January and February 1980. There are no other known publications but the story was incorporated in slightly edited form in the fix-up novel Windhaven (1981).

Locus Award winning and Hugo and Nebula Award nominated novella. It originally appeared in Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, May 1975. The story can also be found in the anthologies The Best Science Fiction of the Year #5 (1976), edited by Terry Carr and The 1976 Annual World's Best SF, edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Arthur W. Saha. In sligtly rewritten form, it makes up the second part of the fixup novel Windhaven (1981).

The planet of Windhaven was not originally a home to humans, but it became one following the crash of a colony starship. It is a world of small islands, harsh weather, and monster-infested seas. Communication among the scattered settlements was virtually impossible until the discovery that, thanks to light gravity and a dense atmosphere, humans were able to fly with the aid of metal wings made of bits of the cannibalized spaceship.

Many generations later, among the scattered islands that make up the water world of Windhaven, no one holds more prestige than the silver-winged flyers, who bring news, gossip, songs, and stories. They are romantic figures crossing treacherous oceans, braving shifting winds and sudden storms that could easily dash them from the sky to instant death. They are also members of an increasingly elite caste, for the wings-always in limited quantity-are growing gradually rarer as their bearers perish.

With such elitism comes arrogance and a rigid adherence to hidebound tradition. And for the flyers, allowing just anyone to join their cadre is an idea that borders on heresy. Wings are meant only for the offspring of flyers-now the new nobility of Windhaven. Except that sometimes life is not quite so neat.

Maris of Amberly, a fisherman's daughter, was raised by a flyer and wants nothing more than to soar on the currents high above Windhaven. By tradition, however, the wings must go to her stepbrother, Coll, the flyer's legitimate son. But Coll wants only to be a singer, traveling the world by sea. So Maris challenges tradition, demanding that flyers be chosen on the basis of merit rather than inheritance. And when she wins that bitter battle, she discovers that her troubles are only beginning.

For not all flyers are willing to accept the world's new structure, and as Maris battles to teach those who yearn to fly, she finds herself likewise fighting to preserve the integrity of a society she so longed to join-not to mention the very fabric that holds her culture together.