A new edition of this classic exploration of malevolent dreams and monstrous forces, from the master of horror. “The dreams are getting stronger,” Guilda Kent said. “My dreams and everyone else’s. We’ve allowed them to grow stronger by trying to explain them away, don’t you understand? Dreaming isn’t a state of mind, but we scientists have lulled people into thinking it is. It isn’t a state of mind, it’s a state of being. The dream place, the collective unconscious… I call it the dream thing. It’s alive, I’m sure it is. It wants to feed on what we call reality, feed on it so it can take its place. We’ve given it that strength, we even helped it gain a hold. That time at Oxford let it break through…” Five people take part in a study of precognitive dreaming, but the future they all dream of is a nightmare. Eleven years later, the dream creature they released creeps into all their lives in shapes they don’t realise are dreams. If it brings the five together again, far worse will be loosed on the world. Can Molly Wolfe, one of the dreamers, track down everyone involved in time to stop it, or is her search doomed to help it achieve its inhuman aim? Is she too unaware of the way the dream creature has insinuated itself into her life? FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing Independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction and fantasy. The list brings together fantastic new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices. Learn more about Flame Tree Press at www.flametreepress.com and connect on social media @FlameTreePress. "The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition." -- The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural “Taken together, his work constitutes one of the towering achievements of modern popular fiction.” -- Washington Post Further Praise for Ramsey Campbell:? 'He is unsurpassed in the subtle manipulation of mood.... You forget you’re just reading a story.' ( Publishers Weekly ) 'He writes of our deepest fears in a precise, clear prose that somehow manages to be beautiful and terrifying at the same time. He is a powerful, original writer, and you owe it to yourself to make his acquaintance.' ( Washington Post ) 'An absolute master of modern horror. And a damn fine writer at that.' (Guillermo del Toro) 'Britain’s most respected living horror writer.' ( Oxford Companion to English Literature ) 'Easily the best horror writer working in Britain today.' ( Time Out ) 'Britain’s leading horror writer.... His novels have been getting better and better.' ( City Limits ) 'One of Britain’s most accomplished horror writers.' ( Oxford Star ) 'The John Le Carre of horror fiction.' (Bookshelf, Radio 4) 'One of the best real horror writers at work today.' ( Interzone ) 'The greatest living exponent of the British weird fiction tradition.' (The Penguin Encyclopaedia of Horror and the Supernatural) 'Ramsey Campbell has succeeded more brilliantly than any other writer in bringing the supernatural tale up to date without sacrificing the literary standards that early masters made an indelible part of the tradition.' (Jack Sullivan, editor of the Penguin encyclopaedia) 'England’s contemporary king of the horror genre.' ( Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) 'One of the few real writers in our field.... In some ways Ramsey Campbell is the best of us all.' (Peter Straub) 'Ramsey Campbell has a talent for terror – he knows how to give you nightmares while you’re still awake... Only a few writers can lay claim to such a level of consummate craftsmanship.' (Robert Bloch) 'Campbell writes the most terrifying horror tales of anyone now alive.' ( Twilight Zone Magazine ) 'One of the world’s finest exponents of the classic British ghost story.' ( Sounds ) 'Britain’s greatest living horror writer.' (Alan Moore) 'For sheer ability to compose disturbing, evocative prose, he is unmatched in the horror/fantasy field.... He turns the traditional horror novel inside out, and makes it work brilliantly.' ( Fangoria ) 'Campbell has solidly established himself to be the best writer working in this field today.' (Karl Edward Wagner, The Year’s Best Horror Stories ) 'When Mr Campbell pits his fallible, most human characters against enormous forces bent on incomprehensible errands the results are, as you might expect, often frightening, and, as you might not expect, often touching; even heartwarming.' (Gahan Wilson in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction ) 'Britain’s leading horror novelist.' ( New Statesman ) 'Ramsey Campbell is Britain’s finest living writer of horror stories; considerable praise for a man whose country boasts the talents of Clive Barker and Roald Dahl, M. John Harrison and Nigel Kneale.' (Douglas Winter, editor of Prime Evil ) 'Campbell writes the most disturbing horror fiction around.' ( Today ) 'Ramsey Campbell is better than all the res