Dreamer [Hardcover]

Peter James (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1990

This psychic thriller features a young woman and her attempts to rid herself of the menacing force that threatens to tear apart her happy, normal well-ordered life. When a sinister colleague of her husband appears, it seems the horror is to come true.

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Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

James ( Possession ) spins this generally engrossing horror tale around the precognitive dreams of a young British mother and advertising executive. As a child, Samantha Curtis sent a hooded rapist hurtling to his death as she fought off his attack. Thereafter, her periodic dreams of that frightening event have preceded personal tragedies. After the last dream 25 years ago, her parents died in an automobile accident. Now the hooded man has returned in a series of dreams that presage horrors both personal and public: an airline crash, a scary moment during her son's birthday party, a gruesome rape and murder in a subway station. At the same time, Sam is also torn by her husband's increasing dependence on a mysterious Swiss banker. While the ending may not deliver the payoff that readers will expect, overall Samantha's story is satisfactory and pleasingly scary.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

As a child, Samantha Curtis was attacked by a hooded man; she fought him off and maimed him. Now a woman in a strained marriage, with not enough time for her work, her husband, and her child, she has begun to dream about the hooded man--and her dreams are coming true. An airplane crash and a murder in a tube station take place exactly as she pictured them. Neither she nor the reader knows whether the horrifying things she is experiencing are real or simply more horrifying prophetic visions. No one wants to take her precognition seriously. But her dreams are right--the hooded man has returned, and he does intend to kill her. A very unsettling novel. Recommended for horror fiction collections.
- Marylaine Block, St. Ambrose Univ. , Davenport, Ia.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 319 pages
• Publisher: St Martins Pr; First US edition (June 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312043074
• ISBN-13: 978-0312043070
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.6 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #886,081 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The book, July 30, 1998

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This review is from: Dreamer (Hardcover)

The Spellbinding "DREAMER" is about a brown eyed, brown haired girl named sam who dreams of a black masked man. The dreams cause disasters, first starting small then ending up big. Sam spends her life trying to discover the horrifing mystery behind the disasters that follow sam and lerk in the shadows until she is in her most vaunerable state; when she is fast asleep. I loved this book and I highly reccomand it to anyone with a source of mystery or drama! If I could give it 100 stars I would!