Nightmare country

by Marlys Millhiser

A young man in a tropical paradise dreams of an unknown woman on a mountain far away... And as he dreams, the young woman envisions him—and the great danger moving ever closer to enfold them both...

A force as strong as destiny and twice as fatal binds Thad Alexander and Tamara Whelan together long before they ever meet. It is a force that will unleash the evil power of the universe on them and those they love, drawing them into a close encounter in a land where the dead return to claim the living as their own... where hideous shapes rise from the sea to engulf men and women in eternal oblivion... where mountains come to life and the past and present co-exist in agony... and where the great battle between love and destruction will be waged by a man, woman and a child—against an evil more appalling than any other mankind has ever known.

Genres: Horror, Fiction

330 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Marlys 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.

Reviews

[Carla Remy]

Boring 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.

[Faith · Rating 1 out of 5]

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.

[Gilda Felt · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.

[Linda Branham · Rating 4 out of 5]

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

[Murphy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Marlis Millhiser is

[K. Counihan · Rating 4 out of 5]

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.