{"product_id":"my-death-isbn-9781681377728","title":"My Death","description":"\u003cb\u003eA widowed writer begins to work on a biography of a novelist and  artist—and soon uncovers bizarre parallels between her life and her  subject’s—in this chilling and singularly strange novella by a  contemporary master of horror and fantasy.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe narrator of Lisa Tuttle’s uncanny novella is a recent widow, a writer adrift. Not only has she lost her husband but her muse seems to have deserted her altogether. Her agent summons her to Edinburgh to discuss her next book. What will she tell him? At once the answer comes to her: she will write the biography of Helen Ralston, best known, if at all, as the subject of W.E. Logan’s much-reproduced painting \u003ci\u003eCirce\u003c\/i\u003e, and the inspiration for his classic children’s book, \u003ci\u003eHermine in Cloud-Land.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut Ralston was a novelist and artist in her own right, though her writing is no longer in print and her most radical painting, \u003ci\u003eMy Death,\u003c\/i\u003e deemed too unsettling—malevolent even—to be shown in public. Over the months that follow, Ralston proves an astonishingly cooperative subject, even as her biographer uncovers eerie resonances between the older woman’s history and her own. Whose biography is she writing—really?“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.” —Neil Gaiman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Is [\u003ci\u003eMy Death\u003c\/i\u003e] a chilling prediction, or does it point to a wished-for-ending, the consummation of a life?...originally published in 2004, repackaged as a modern classic, this riddling narrative laces fiction with fact, while touching upon (among other things) the mysteries of attraction, identity, and the fate of female creatives in the shadow of men.\" —Stephanie Cross, \u003ci\u003eDaily Mail\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Tuttle’s work to date has been categorized as horror, or speculative fiction, and \u003ci\u003eMy Death\u003c\/i\u003e deftly navigates between conventional storytelling and the uncanny feeling that things are perhaps other than they appear. The theme of the alternate feminist narrative is actually integrated into the form of the novel itself...in the end, \u003ci\u003eMy Death\u003c\/i\u003e is not about death at all, but about life after catastrophe: how art revives us, and how writers live on in their readers.\" —Lauren Elkin, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"My Death\u003c\/i\u003e is very readable, in that page-turning, suspense-building way....The fun of \u003ci\u003eMy Death \u003c\/i\u003eis in its propulsive mystery plot...it is a creepy, cozy pleasure, the kind of story that bothers a reader in the nicest sort of way.” —\u003ci\u003eBiblioklept\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Full of twists and turns, the book conjures the rich inner lives of women working on the fringes of artistic communities that often forget to memorialize or acknowledge them, even as Tuttle keeps taut the thread of suspense that animates the story. Powerful and empoweringly weird.” —\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e“Gloriously weird…[Tuttle’s] voice from the start is frank and conversational, almost bog-ordinary, but the story’s manifest plainness blooms into something strange and doubling, somewhere between Hitchcock and \u003ci\u003ePicnic at Hanging Rock\u003c\/i\u003e.” —Leah Greenblatt,\u003ci\u003e The New York Times \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Lisa Tuttle's characters crawl into places that many genre authors avoid....As sexually uncomfortable as her books can be, it's the emotional discomfort that clings to you....Tuttle's books are messy and chaotic. They feel desperate. They feel human. They feel like real life.\" —Grady Hendrix, \u003ci\u003eTor.com\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“It is [Tuttle’s] influence, ringing loud and clear, on the award-winning work of authors like Carmen Maria Machado, Elizabeth McCracken, and Karen Russell that will finally lead grateful readers back to her.” —\u003ci\u003eBooklist \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Tuttle\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Texas and moved to Britain in the 1980s. Her first novel, \u003ci\u003eWindhaven\u003c\/i\u003e, co-written with George R.R. Martin, was followed by a dozen fantasy, science fiction, and horror adult and YA novels, and hundreds of award-winning short stories collected in several volumes, including \u003ci\u003eA Nest of Nightmares \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Dead Hours of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Encyclopedia of Feminism\u003c\/i\u003e and currently writes a monthly science fiction review column for \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian.\u003c\/i\u003e She lives with her husband and their daughter in Scotland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmy Gentry\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eGood as Gone\u003c\/i\u003e, a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book; \u003ci\u003eLast Woman Standing\u003c\/i\u003e; and mostly recently, \u003ci\u003eBad Habits\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also a nonfiction writer whose work has appeared in numerous outlets, including the \u003ci\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSalon\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Paris Review\u003c\/i\u003e. 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