Evil Dreams

by John Tigges

Book by Tigges, John

Genres: Horror

400 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Tigges began his career as an author and writer in 1973. He wrote more than thirty-eight books under his own name and pen names "Ned Stone" and "William Essex."

In 1976 Tigges was commissioned to write Jean Marie Cardinal, an historical novel. Teaming with James Shaffer, he wrote Dubuque: The 19th Century, Dubuque: The 20th Century, Iowa’s Last Narrow-Gauge Railroad, and Railroads of Dubuque, Iowa. Tigges wrote such novels as Garden of the Incubus, Unto the Altar, Kiss Not the Child, Evil Dreams, The Immortal, Hand of Lucifer, As Evil Does, Vessel, Comes the Wraith, Venom, and Book of the Dead. Under the pen name William Essex he wrote The Pack, Slime, and From Below. He wrote Mountain Massacre, and Rails to Hades using the name Ned Stone. Tigges founded the Sinipee Writers Workshop and taught writing seminars in Iowa and Wisconsin.

Tigges made many contributions locally to the field of music. He established the Dubuque "Pops" orchestra and co-founded the DUBUQUE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA in 1956. Tigges served as business manager of the symphony for ten years and played violin with it from 1958 to 1968 and again from 1971 to 1973. In 1972 Tigges founded the Julien Strings, a society string orchestra. He led the group and played violin.

Reviews

[Shane · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was the first "adult" horror novel I ever read, back in the 7th grade. I can't remember much about it now other than something about dreams of Hitler, a throbbing erection (belonging to the story's main character, not me) and the general notion that in reading this book I was really sort of coming of age--the era of Choose Your Own Adventure books was behind me and ahead lay a vast, blood-slicked road of horror fiction (and porn, if I could get my hands on it). I remember enjoying this lurid, terrifying tale so much that I read it twice, back-to-back. I no longer own a copy, but since it's going for about $1.65 online I should probably order one; I wouldn't mind having another crack at Evil Dreams to see if it's as good as I remember.

[Ethan’s Books · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was my first book by JT. It was awesome! The cover art is so much fun it’s what drew me into getting this book. I’m glad I did too! Because it was just so much fun to read. It’s my favorite book by him. The best part of JT books is that they are for the most part fast reads. So even if you don’t like the story rest assured you will be done before you know it.

I also enjoyed

As Evil Does *somewhat like the crow movie if you dig that. Motorcycles, drugs, possessions, and revenge.

The Monster* who doesn’t love a fun big foot story.
Camping, big foot steals girl, man vs. nature to get girl back.

Unto The Alter* weird satanic cults, virgins, and sacrificing.

[Ronald Wilcox · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars really. Storyline had some exciting moments but overall just not a very good book with poor writing in sections

[Bradley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well researched. Story is so so. Not for me.

[Reevrb · Rating 1 out of 5]

Couldn't get past first 1/3 of the book. Wifey was so annoying how she loved him so much but he did little for her as he was a drunk and a addict....time to move on.