The Nightmarys

The Nightmarys

Juvenile/YA fiction
"Timothy's Brother, Ben, opened his mouth wide and showed him
his purple, swollen tongue.
Timothy screamed.
Ben stared at him with big eyes the same color as the Chinese
dragon, the same color as the specimin in Timothy's classroom.
Swirling. Black. Mad."
You've probably had at least a few nightmares, maybe even some
really scary ones. I had one of my most terrifying ones when I left
the hospital after giving birth. As I got into bed I felt a hard lump
on my breast. That night I dreamed that I was on a balloon soaring
into the sky with no way to get back to Earth. Fortunately the lump
was a clogged milk duct. Life went on.
What if there was an artifact that could enable its owner to
read everyone's deepest fears? What if the owner could cause people
to experience those nightmares in their waking hours? What if that
artifact needed to be charged from time to time? What if that process
necessitated human sacrifice? Those are the spine chilling premises
of Dan Poblicki's The Nightmarys.
Timothy's soldier brother, Ben, has been in a horrifying
incident overseas. He lies in a coma in a military hospital. Only
Timothy has been seeing mutilated versions of him in many ordinary
places.
Abigail has just moved to Timothy's town and enrolled in his
school. Two bullies who had made her life miserable in her old school
visit her in the deep of night. They want her to go with them.
A prehistoric jawbone with an artificial tooth is supposed to,
in association with a dark goddess, give its holder unlimited revenge
potential by bringing enemies' worst fears to life. It's missing from
its place in the town museum. It's running low on energy, in need of
a blood sacrifice.
Will two seventh graders be able to locate and destroy it before
it has a chance to feed?
You'll want to read the book to see.
On a purrrsonal note, I finally wrapped up the annotated
bibliography. Of course I'll continue to add to it because there are
always new relevant books. Now the difficult part: how to get it out
to the people who could use it. It's much too long for this blog.
We're enjoying lovely summer days. Not too many muggy days so far.
(Jules).
It is nice nice weather (Tobago)
A great big shout out goes out to you, our readers. We hope that,
despite the pandemic, you're finding ways to have summer fun.
Tobago and Jules Hathaway


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