Ghosts & Other Lovers

by Lisa Tuttle

Lisa Tuttle (b. 1952) is an American-born science fiction, fantasy, and horror author. She has published more than a dozen novels, seven short story collections, and several non-fiction titles. She has been living in the United Kingdom since 1981. Now Lisa's thirteen best stories, which appeared here and there in the '80s and in the '90s, are collected in a single, elegant volume by Robert Morgan's Sarob Press. 'In Jealousy', 'Mr Elphinstone's Hands', 'From Another Country', 'The Walled Garden', 'Lucy Maria', 'The Extra Hour', 'Where the Stones Grow', 'White Lady's Grave', 'Soul Song', 'Food Man', 'Manskin, Womanskin', 'Turning Thirty' and 'Haunts'

Genres: Short Stories, Horror

143 pages, Hardcover

First published August 1, 2001

About the author

(Wife of Colin Murray) aka Maria Palmer (house pseudonym).

Lisa Tuttle taught a science fiction course at the City Lit College, part of London University, and has tutored on the Arvon courses. She was residential tutor at the Clarion West SF writing workshop in Seattle, USA. She has published six novels and two short story collections. Many of her books have been translated into French and German editions.

Reviews

[Tina Rath · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the kind of short story collection where you want to dash on to the next story immediately because the last one was so good - and at the same time you want to stop and savour what you've last read, and make the whole experience last. The stories are disturbing without being gruesome, sad, charming and irresistible as a box of very good chocolates, when you've lost the guide which tells you what flavour you can expect - sometimes sweet, sometimes with a sharp bite of alcohol, often surprising. I won't do any spoilers but I particularly recommend "White Lady's Grave" - I thought I knew what was going to happen in the end, but I didn't, and neither, alas, did the heroine, "The Walled Garden", "Lucy Maria" - and - especially for writers - especially for women writers - "The Extra Hour". Who wouldn't want a study where time stands still? But, oh...the guilt...
Thoroughly recommended.

[itchy · Rating 3 out of 5]

These have romance as a common denominator, as well as ghosts (as indicated in the title). While I liked the last collection better (A Nest of Nightmares), the thematic characteristic of this book is commendable.

[Dina]

👏👏

[Fatman · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some of the stories are wonderful and haunting, others tried a little too hard to be surreal, with mixed results.