Thank you to Netgalley for the ARC!

This was super fun, the premise is fresh and engaging, the characters really well rounded, and the gore is totally over the top. All in all I'm always pleasantly surprised with this author!

This review is admittedly a little bit biased, as I am fully a member of the Tingle cult and will happily read whatever he gives us. This particular novel was an incredibly smart, existentially horrific book. It takes more of a sci-fi turn in the second half, which is different from what Tingle has typically done in his traditionally-published novels, but he does so with the finesse that you’d expect from the World’s Greatest Author. The imagery of the scary moments is what Tingle really excels at, equal parts campy and unimaginably terrifying. I also loved how the story was a queer parable, and great bisexuality rep, as expected for Tingle’s work. Chuck Tingle will never cease to amaze me with his outlandish writing and undeniable talent.

Chuck Tingle has done it again. Lucky Day is a wild ride of luck, loss, and finding meaning in chaos.
During what will later be known as Low-Probability Event, millions of people are killed in one day due to freak accidents and bizarre occurrences.
Vera lost everything on LPE and feels like life is totally meaningless and nothing matters. Then Special Agent Layne shows up and needs her help making sense of the nonsensical.
Buckle up, Buckaroos… what happens next in this exciting book will keep you guessing until the very end.
Thank you, NetGalley, for the ARC.

Chuck Tingle books, my beloved! I had such a great time with this book. The pull of emptiness of nothing against the chaos of luck, both good and bad both externally and within the main character were compelling the whole way through, and the scenes of horror were genuinely horrifying. The low probability events were unsettling and strange while being just this side of surreal, which is perfect. These things aren't impossible, just astronomically unlikely, especially when stacked together.

Chuck Tingle has once again used horror as a way to prove love is real, and I can't wait to read whatever he's writing next.

Hooked from the first page, I found myself spiraling into Chuck Tingle’s latest nightmare—a world where the most horrifying monster isn’t a creature, but nothing itself. In Lucky Day, Vera, a former statistics professor, is forced to confront a reality where probability has gone rogue, and Vegas might just be the epicenter of the next catastrophe. Tingle masterfully balances cosmic terror with sharp satire, proving once again that reality is the strangest fiction of all.

With his signature blend of absurdity and genuine terror, Tingle crafts a story that is as unsettling as it is darkly funny. The stakes? Reality itself. The villain? The kind of randomness that turns luck into doom. If you thought Tingle’s surreal horror couldn’t get any weirder—or smarter—think again. Lucky Day is a jackpot of existential dread wrapped in Chuck Tingle’s signature style.

Many thanks to NetGalley and Tor Publishing Group | Tor Nightfire for providing me with an eARC of Lucky Day prior to its publication.