Synopsis
Shelley Campbell is comfortable using her gift to help phobic patients, but when she discovers a pattern of supernatural harassment that scares victims to death, the psychic graduate student finds herself in danger from the force emanating from the dreamlike Moontown.
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About the Author
Born in Liverpool, England, PETER ATKINS is the author of the novels MORNINGSTAR and BIG THUNDER and the movies HELLRAISER II, HELLRAISER III, HELLRAISER IV, and WISHMASTER. His short fiction has appeared in numerous award-winning anthologies including THE MUSEUM OF HORRORS, DARK DELICACIES II, and several volumes of BEST NEW HORROR. He has also written for the stage, television, and comic books. Peter Atkins is married and lives in Los Angeles.
Reviews
In Atkins's fourth Halloween horror-fantasy (after the 1999 collection Wishmaster and Other Stories), Shelley Campbell, psychic graduate student, uses her gift to help phobic and compulsive patients. As Shelley explores one mind after another, she finds a pattern of supernatural harassment that scares victims to death. Its locus is the dreamlike Moontown, which soon intrudes into Shelley's mind and the real world. This finely written and sharply told tale is a strong example of modern horror, though it suffers from some of the genre's less desirable tics. Shelley doesn't seem to notice the constant sexual threat and objectification her creepy boss subjects her to, but readers will have trouble ignoring it. On the other hand, she's quite capable of rescuing herself, and the kaleidoscope of peril successfully keeps readers guessing and gasping even when the plot thread slackens.
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Shelley Campbell is a young psychologist with a remarkable and increasingly volatile gift. As part of a group study program devoted to curing phobias, she has the ability to enter her clients’ dreams and unearth their deepest childhood fears. The Ragman, Jimmy Midnight, and Johnny in the Dark are names belonging to the bogeymen haunting their long-forgotten nightmares. Yet when her clients begin dying off in ways that reflect their worst anxieties, Shelley learns with growing alarm that her powers aren’t only feeding these imaginary demons but bringing them to flesh-and-blood life. After Jimmy Midnight invades the psyche of a small boy under her care, Shelley realizes it’s up to her to vanquish the fiend on his own turf by letting herself be lured into a shifting dreamscape known as Moontown. Atkins’ fusion of fast-paced narration and surreal horror packs a large wallop for such a slender novel. His continuously morphing and malevolent Moontown demon is memorable enough to rival Elm Street’s Freddy Krueger. --Carl Hays
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Earthling Pubns, Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, U.S.A., 2008
ISBN 10: 0979505453
ISBN 13: 9780979505454
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. Clark, Alan M. (illustrator). 1st Edition. #112 of 500 numbered and signed by the author copies. Clark signed at a convention later on. Signed by Author and artist. Seller Inventory # 004169