Dreamer

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Review "This offbeat first novel of psychological horror keeps the reader alert with its sweeping, fast-paced transformations and canny fantasies of desire, success and inexplicable loss." - Publishers Weekly"Horror at the End of the Century: A Reading List." Included were Dreamer, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs, Peter Straub's Mrs. God, Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child, Dan Simmons's Children of the Night, and 57 others.  - The New York Review of Science Fiction"A good, convoluted first novel about a man who is either being fiendishly manipulated or is crazy." (Mentioned alongside such "noteworthy novels" as Doris Lessing's The Fifth Child, Peter Straub's Koko, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs, and Anne Rice's Queen of the Damned.) -- Ellen Datlow, The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection Read more From the Author Ishmael, the book I'm best known for, was the product of a twelve-year struggle. The book right here, Dreamer, was written during the ninth year of that struggle -- more or less to prove to myself that I really WAS a writer. Dreamer's not Ishmael, of course (nothing will ever be Ishmael), but it IS a novel, and reading it with fresh eyes -- as something written by a stranger -- published and forgotten long, long ago, I was pleasantly surprised to find that it's a damn good one. Read more See all Editorial Reviews