A writer’s pursuit of her latest subject leads to unexpected places in Lisa Tuttle’s uncanny novella
The unease that creeps into this story is not overwhelming, but unnerving in its very ordinariness.
Labyrinthine nightmares: “Treading the Maze” by Lisa Tuttle
Tuttle’s brand of quiet horror is at once a rejoinder to a genre that leans heavily on masculine aggression and a means to achieve effects more unsettling than an explicit presentation could ever be.