Lucky Day, Chuck Tingle
Lucky Day, Chuck Tingle
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Lucky Day

Author: Chuck Tingle

Narrator: Mara Wilson

Unabridged: 8 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/12/2025

Categories: Fiction, Lgbtq+, Horror


Synopsis

“Mara Wilson's sober narration style and consistent pacing create an amusing juxtaposition with the unlucky events that unfold.” — Kirkus

“[Mara] Wilson narrates the audiobook with a sultry cadence that captures devilish delight and [author Chuck] Tingle’s knack for macabre.” — Library Journal

“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights." —Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death

Lucky Day is the latest from Chuck Tingle, USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, where one woman must go up against horrifying odds to save the world.

Four years ago, an unthinkable disaster occurred. In what was later known as the Low-Probability Event, eight million people were killed in a single day, each of them dying in improbable, bizarre ways: strangled by balloon ropes, torn apart by exploding manhole covers, attacked by a chimpanzee wielding a typewriter. A day of freak accidents that proved anything is possible, no matter the odds. Luck is real now, and it's not always good.

Vera, a former statistics and probability professor, lost everything that day, and she still struggles to make sense of the unbelievable catastrophe. To her, the LPE proved that the God of Order is dead and nothing matters anymore.

When Special Agent Layne shows up on Vera’s doorstep, she learns he's investigating a suspiciously—and statistically impossibly—lucky casino. He needs her help to prove the casino’s success is connected to the deaths of millions, and it's Vera's last chance to make sense of a world that doesn’t.

Because what's happening in Vegas isn't staying there, and she's the only thing that stands between the world and another deadly improbability.

"Wilson narrates with emotional depth, conveying all of Rose's intelligence, inquisitiveness, and fear as she's hunted by otherworldly beings." —AudioFile on Camp Damascus

Also by Chuck Tingle:
Bury Your Gays
Camp Damascus
Straight

A Macmillan Audio production from Tor Nightfire

About Chuck Tingle

CHUCK TINGLE is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus, Bury Your Gays, Lucky Day, Fabulous Bodies, and Straight. He is a Locus Award winner, and a finalist for the Bram Stoker and CALIBA Golden Poppy Awards. Tingle is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy who lives in Los Angeles, California. Tingle writes to prove love is real, because love is the most important tool we have when resisting the endless cosmic void. Not everything people say about Tingle is true, but the important parts are.

About Mara Wilson

Mara Wilson has narrated more than 60 audiobooks, including Bury Your Gays, for which she won an Audie Award for Horror. She also won Earphones Awards for Scorched Grace, Dangerous Visions, and Dykes to Watch Out For.Mara is awed and thrilled that she gets to tell stories as a job!


Reviews

Goodreads review by Hades on August 06, 2025

A HUGE thank you to Netgalley & Macmillan Audio for an advanced copy of this book!  Oh my holy sky man!! 🫢 I'm not quite sure what I just read but all I know is I had one hell of a good time & I want to do it again! *Jumps up & down repeatedly like an obnoxious child.. Honestly starting Netgallery has......more

Goodreads review by Chantaal on August 25, 2025

Another absolutely solid horror novel from Chuck Tingle, who has rapidly become one of my favorite horror authors in the last few years. Lucky Day is his third full horror novel, and much like Camp Damascus and Bury Your Gays, Lucky Day finds Chuck tackling another aspect of queer identity in the mi......more

Goodreads review by Lance on August 20, 2025

4 stars. Existential, inventive, and containing Chuck Tingle's signature zany style of queer horror, Lucky Day is a surprisingly optimistic take on human existence in the wake of cosmic horror.......more

Chuck truly never misses! Lucky Day feels like exactly the story we all need right now - it's about how the world is often both absurd and horrific, and that's traumatic. But also there is hope for good, for better. It follows a bisexual statistician who experiences an extremely low likelihood event......more

Goodreads review by Angie on July 13, 2025

Chuck Tingle makes me question all of my literary preferences; his stories are so absurd and fascinating. Lucky Day is no exception, I think I like all of his books more and more. Vera is a professor in Chicago, she is engaged to Annie. She tells her mother she is bisexual and introduces her to Anni......more


Quotes

Praise for Lucky Day:

“An existential masterwork that, like life, is equal parts atrocity and delights. In Tingle's hands, the slow trudge toward mortality regains its sense of marvel. We are all lucky for the statistically infinitesimal chance to be alive while Chuck Tingle is writing books.”
—Olivie Blake, New York Times bestselling author of Masters of Death

“Sparkles and shines as bright as the Las Vegas strip! Lucky Day fearlessly explores existence, absurdity, and love as only Chuck Tingle can do it. It will shock, thrill, and unlock new fears never even dreamt of. This is Tingle at his strangest and bloodiest.”
—CJ Leede, USA Today bestselling author of American Rapture

“A transcendent bisexual fantasia. Prepare to be astonished, unnerved, and ultimately, delighted. Lucky Day is groundbreaking, surrealist horror like you’ve never seen before.”
—Liz Kerin, author of Night's Edge

"Tingle wows with an absurdist existential horror novel that is as funny as it is unexpectedly devastating, complex, and challenging...Combining irreverent moments of surreality with an earnest message about finding hope even in the face of brutality, this is Tingle’s best yet."
—Publishers Weekly, STARRED REVIEW

“Tingle’s latest is an absurd romp, but underneath the off-the-wall mayhem lies his most sophisticated work to date.”
Booklist, STARRED REVIEW

Praise for Chuck Tingle:

"This book is Tingle’s declaration: Love is real, and so are monsters."
—Gabino Iglesias, The New York Times Book Review, on Bury Your Gays

"Tingle proves he's as good at fear as he is at love.”
―T. Kingfisher, NYT bestselling author, on Camp Damascus

“Tingle cements his place in horror with this gory romp.”
Publishers Weekly (STARRED REVIEW) on Bury Your Gays

"Chuck Tingle is absolutely the best guide through this level of Hell.”
—N.K. Jemisin, NYT bestselling author, on Camp Damascus

“Chuck Tingle continues to surprise and thrill.”
—John Scalzi, NYT bestselling author, on Camp Damascus

“Brilliantly bloody, wildly fun, and extremely scary.”
—Rachel Harrison, national bestselling author of So Thirsty, on Bury Your Gays

"Even if you don’t think you like horror, you’re gonna devour this."
—Drew Broussard, LIT HUB, on Bury Your Gays