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Nightmare Country
Thousands of miles apart, a man and a woman dream of each other, unaware that they’re bound together by an otherworldly evil that will threaten everyone they love
Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well.
These two strangers find their lives increasingly intertwined as mysterious and menacing extraterrestrial technology allows them to read each other’s minds and become intimately familiar with each other’s worlds. Amid natural disasters and inexplicable vanishings, Thad and Tamara find themselves at the tumultuous center of a titanic battle between love and destruction, waged by forces beyond their control.
A novel that expands the boundaries of the paranormal, Nightmare Country tackles weighty issues of time, love, loss, and the impermanence of life.
Tamara Whelan and her sullen adolescent daughter have just arrived in the isolated Wyoming mining town of Iron Mountain. The financially strapped single mother has accepted a teaching job, replacing someone who died under suspicious circumstances. As Tamara struggles to adjust to life among superstitious neighbors in an unforgiving place, she’s plagued by horrifying night visions of a strange man and an unfamiliar beach that glistens in the moonlight. Unbeknownst to her, the man, Thad Alexander, is real. He lives in Belize and has been dreaming about her as well.
These two strangers find their lives increasingly intertwined as mysterious and menacing extraterrestrial technology allows them to read each other’s minds and become intimately familiar with each other’s worlds. Amid natural disasters and inexplicable vanishings, Thad and Tamara find themselves at the tumultuous center of a titanic battle between love and destruction, waged by forces beyond their control.
A novel that expands the boundaries of the paranormal, Nightmare Country tackles weighty issues of time, love, loss, and the impermanence of life.
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First published January 1, 1981
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Marlys Millhiser
22 books115 followersMarlys Millhiser is an American author of fifteen mysteries and horror novels. Born in Charles City, Iowa, Millhiser originally worked as a high school teacher. She has served as a regional vice president of the Mystery Writers of America and is best known for her novel The Mirror and for the Charlie Greene Mysteries. Millhiser lived in Boulder, Colorado.
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August 1, 2011Boring and dry despite being about dimensions and dream travel. Despite being by the writer of "The Mirror," of of the best time travel novels. If I get to page fifty and don't care, I don't read it. This is my rule.
September 1, 2015
Dreadful! Totally confusing mish mash of absolute nonsense! So disappointing after loving The Mirror and Enjoying Threshold. I know how good this writer can be which made my disappointment even worse. I can't remember disliking a book so much since Lisa See's Peony In Love. I hate it when an author who can absolutely delight does such a complete turn around. I'm so glad I didn't read this before the others or I would never have picked up another title by her. The characters were two dimensional, the far fetched plot was hard to follow. Absolutely no redeeming qualities. I only stuck with it because I kept waiting for it to improve. It was not her earliest novel either. She actually wrote the mesmerizing The Mirror and a couple of others before this one. I know it was supposed to be about nightmares and time warps, but it was just so poorly executed that it wasn't even a little bit fun.
February 19, 2022
Part horror story, part science fiction, the story is eventually shown to be a romance story.
Much of what is going on is never fully explained, thus the horror part. But some of the story is explained. There are machines from the future that are distorting time, causing the visions of the dead. But are those people really dead? The answer isn’t clear.
The book started slow, but once the story started to completely focus on Tamara and Thad, things began to pick up.
This was a strange, convoluted, but ultimately entertaining story.
Much of what is going on is never fully explained, thus the horror part. But some of the story is explained. There are machines from the future that are distorting time, causing the visions of the dead. But are those people really dead? The answer isn’t clear.
The book started slow, but once the story started to completely focus on Tamara and Thad, things began to pick up.
This was a strange, convoluted, but ultimately entertaining story.
April 9, 2017
At first I couldn't get into the story - but then I did. An original and interesting story about connected dreams of people in 2 different areas of the world
March 7, 2020
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October 7, 2017
Original, Quirky, Twisted, Aliens, Time Travel, Mind Travel
This tale bounces from a new teacher in an old mining town in Wyoming, to Thad, in Belize. The two are connected by telepathic dreaming, precipitated by Aliens. Memory and truth are mixed to form a Bermuda Triangle Effect. This has some very odd characters on both sides of the connection.
This tale bounces from a new teacher in an old mining town in Wyoming, to Thad, in Belize. The two are connected by telepathic dreaming, precipitated by Aliens. Memory and truth are mixed to form a Bermuda Triangle Effect. This has some very odd characters on both sides of the connection.
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