Bad Dreams

by Kim Newman

Overview

Anne Nielson, an American journalist, comes to London to investigate the strange death of her sister. Soon, she becomes sucked into a netherworld of corruption and perversion and is hurtled toward a final confrontation where she has only the dead as allies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781781165614
Publisher:	Titan
Publication date:	11/18/2014
Pages:	432
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.50(d)

About the Author

KIM NEWMAN is a well known and highly acclaimed author. He has won the Bram Stoker, British Fantasy and British Science Fiction Awards and been nominated for the Hugo, International Horror Guild, and World Fantasy Awards. He is also the author of Horror: The 100 Best Books with Stephen Jones. His reviews appear often in Empire magazine and he has written for Time Out and many other publications. He makes frequent appearances on radio and TV. He lives in London.

Editorial Reviews

This sporadically gruesome and nearly always frightening horror tale is not for the squeamish or faint of heart, but readers enthralled by things that go bump in the night are in for a treat. When journalist Anne Nielson goes to London to investigate the death of her sister Judi, a drug-addicted prostitute, she finds herself enmeshed with the denizens of Judi's nightmarish world: dealers, pimps, sadomasochists and, most horribly, the Monster, a member of the Kind--a ghoulish race kept eternally alive by eating humans and ingesting their dreams. Newman ( The Night Mayor ) pits his spirited heroine against this fiend in several brutal, shocking and tense encounters. One might expect that the immortal Monster would have the upper hand, but Anne, certain that he killed her sister, proves a formidable foe. Will her dreams be won by the Kind? Fans of the genre should enjoy finding out. (Nov.)

Publishers Weekly - Publisher's Weekly

When her sister is found dead in London's Soho district, journalist Anne Nielson begins a private investigation that leads her to a sordid underworld of prostitution, drugs, and kinky sex before plunging her into a terrifying nightmare world inhabited by an immortal killer who feeds off the lives and dreams of his victims. Graphic descriptions of sex and violence place this novel by the author of The Night Mayor (Carroll & Graf Pubs., 1990) firmly inside the boundaries of splatter fiction. Newman's heady surrealism and knife-edge prose, however, give the story a sophistication that is unusual to the genre. Recommended, with qualifications, for libraries with strong horror collections.

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