Dream Demon

by Anne Billson

Susan is about to marry the man she loves, so why is she having such terrible nightmares? What is the secret of the ugly old doll she finds in the basement? And who is the mysterious American girl who turns up on the doorstep of her new London home? Soon, Susan is finding it hard to distinguish dream from reality. But if she can't learn to tell them apart, she may never be able to wake up again...

From the acclaimed author of Suckers, Stiff Lips and The Ex comes the story of two young women from very different backgrounds who team up against the ancient evil attacking them through their dreams.

Genres: Horror

197 pages, Kindle Edition

First published June 1, 2012

About the author

ANNE BILLSON is a film critic, novelist, photographer, style icon, wicked spinster, evil feminist, and international cat-sitter who has lived in London, Tokyo, Paris and Croydon, and now lives in Belgium. She likes frites, beer and chocolate.

Her books include SUCKERS (an upwardly mobile vampire novel), STIFF LIPS (a Notting Hill ghost story), THE EX (a supernatural detective story) and THE COMING THING (Rosemary's Baby meets Bridget Jones) as well as several works of non-fiction, including BILLSON FILM DATABASE, BREAST MAN: A CONVERSATION WITH RUSS MEYER, and monographs on the films THE THING and LET THE RIGHT ONE IN.

Her latest book is CATS ON FILM, the definitive work of feline film scholarship.

She sometimes writes about film for the Guardian, and is currently working on a screenplay and a sequel to her vampire novel, SUCKERS. She has three blogs: multiglom.com (the Billson Blog), catsonfilm.net (a blog about cats in the cinema), and lempiredeslumieres.com (photographs of Belgian beer, bars and sunsets).

Reviews

[Snakes · Rating 2 out of 5]

My first Billson novel which ended up being a bit of a mess. I wish I had noticed this was a novelization of a not too successful movie from the nineties. Since Billson was simply trying to transfer this movie into prose it completely lost her style, which is quite good on the whole. Moreover, this movie was sort of a rip off of A Nightmare on Elm Street, or perhaps A Nightmare on Elm Street was a rip off of this movie. Either way it didn’t translate to book form and ended up just being not all that good. I’ll have to read one of her originals next, thus far those have been fantastic.

[Mikepottz · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dreams becoming reality, reality becoming dreams all mixed up into one entertaining rollercoaster ride. Throw in a scary doll and you have an interesting story.