Lucky Day

Chuck Tingle

Aug 2025 · Macmillan Audio · Narrated by Mara Wilson

About this audiobook

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

“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

Ratings and reviews

My son has been raving about Chuck Tingle for ages so I'm glad I finally got around to reading one of their novels! Even though I enjoy dark and horror, I was a little afraid by the precis of Lucky Day... but it isn't scary - it is clever, and creative, and optimistic, and hopeful. Beautifully written, unique, and impossible to put down, I highly recommend Lucky Day. I can't wait to read another book by Chuck Tingle. The audio version of Lucky Day is perfectly performed by Mara Wilson.

Surprising & weird. Too surreal for me, & definitely too gross with the vivid depictions of violence, bloodshed, & eldritch horrors. It was interesting, & I was curious about where the story would end up, but it was too dark for me; I didn’t find it a pleasant experience. Kudos to Tingle for writing a main character who is a bisexual woman & a former professor of probability & statistics. Unfortunately, she was so depressed & nihilistic that I couldn’t relate to her. Great narration.

Another banger. Mara Wilson does a phenomenal job bringing this story to life.

About the author

CHUCK TINGLE is the USA Today bestselling author of Camp Damascus, Bury Your Gays, and Straight. His books have been finalists for the Bram Stoker and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award. He is a mysterious force of energy behind sunglasses and a pink mask. He is also an anonymous author of romance, horror, and fantasy. Tingle was born in Home of Truth, Utah and now 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.