The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle

Martin, Windhaven, for many years we talked about a sequel and there’s even been some interest in it again, but George has no time. Since my first novel was a collaboration with George R. I thought, right, Jesperson and Lane have got to go up to Norfolk and they have to encounter a Shrieking Pit!Īnd I think I’m right in saying this is the first time you’ve written a sequel… So I was reading about that and I just became quite fascinated. And then there’s various legends around them.

And they’re quite mysterious because there are various theories as to what they were, whether they were underground dwellings, whether they were some sort of mine, whether it was the Romans who did them, or whether they’re a lot older than that. I don’t really know if there’s anything left of them because the places where they are on the map, if you actually look on Google Earth, you can’t really see anything. There are these places in Norfolk which are known as the Shrieking Pits, and there’s not much left of them. They thought people would think it was funny.

They said they thought the word pits to them meant armpits. The original title was going to be The Curious Affair of the Shrieking Pits, but someone at the publisher didn’t really like that title. And they encounter witchcraft and ancient British wisdom and just all sorts of things really. Oh well this time they actually leave London for the wilds of Norfolk. What new challenges and mysteries are they facing this time? Your latest novel, The Witch at Wayside Cross, sees the return of your detective duo Jesperson and Lane from The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief. Fantasy-Faction was able to catch up with Lisa Tuttle at the event to promote her new novel in Glasgow. Her most recent novels The Curious Affair of the Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief (2016) and The Curious Affair of the Witch at Wayside Cross (2017), feature the detectives and solvers of mysteries both paranormal and mundane, Jesperson and Lane. Her fantasy novels The Mysteries (2005) and The Silver Bough (2006) draw heavily on Celtic mythology. Martin, is space opera, but she has written truly chilling horror with Familiar Spirit (1983) and Gabriel (1987), and science fiction with her Tiptree-nominated 1992 novel Lost Futures. Her first novel Windhaven (1981), written with George R. She has won awards for her incisive short fiction. Since selling her first story in 1972, Lisa Tuttle has written a wealth of material that spans genre.

The Somnambulist and the Psychic Thief by Lisa Tuttle