The Loved, The Lost, The Dreaming (The Nightmare Cycle)
Nightmares bleed into the waking world. Featuring a full-length novel, "The Underlighters", and eleven stand-alone short stories, this collection blends fairy tales, horror, and science fiction. A city of shadows lurks underground. Restless ghosts, eerie dolls, and spiteful stepmothers wait...
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Nightmares bleed into the waking world. Featuring a full-length novel, "The Underlighters", and eleven stand-alone short stories, this collection blends fairy tales, horror, and science fiction. A city of shadows lurks underground. Restless ghosts, eerie dolls, and spiteful stepmothers wait among other dreams. These are haunting stories of love, madness and small disasters.
"The Underlighters" is a dystopian horror coming-of-age adventure that follows the life of Janelle Cohen from insignificance to bitter-sweet triumph.
"Footsteps in the Snow" is a Lovecraftian nightmare set in a Canadian winter.
"A Shot of Vodka", a darkly realistic exploration of life after trauma, rounds out the collection. More and stranger stories fill in the gaps.
This genre-breaking anthology is a new and ferocious look at the frailty of the human condition. Gender and sexual mores are rewritten; dreams and reality merge. Primal fears take physical form. This beautifully-written thrill ride will captivate you long after the last page.
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Format: kindle
ASIN: B00B7MA9II
Publish date: November 30th 2013
Publisher: Michelle Browne
Pages no: 636
Edition language: English
I admit I had the opportunity to review the headliner novel of this compilation as a beta reader. It was good then, but much better now. I really enjoyed The Underlighters. It’s a dark and horrific dystopian fantasy where nightmares take physical shape in the daylight. Within this cyberpunk-horror i...
The Loved, The Lost, The Dreaming is a title that describes perfectly the brilliant content of this compilation that even Stephen King would be proud of. The first read The Underlighters is a New Adult dystopian horror fantasy the likes of which I could never have imagined. As the book's main title ...
Wow, just wow. there is so much wonder behind the words written in this book. This book is not one for rushing, it takes time to read but you'll want to read every word through every breath. The first half we are in a dystopian horror novel, where everyone lives underground through tunnels, above gr...
A copy of this book was given to me by the author. This does not affect my opinion.Ok, I DNF this book. I only read the first story, a very small portion of the overall work. So I'm not writing a review or leaving a star rating. I will say why it didn't work for me though.-There were quite a few edi...