Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan

“Caitlín Kiernan is one of the great stylists of horror fiction, and this novella is a triumph. Her writing is fantastic and her stories are dark, complex and wonderful.” - Book Riot “Caitlín R Kiernan is one of those writers that you can’t believe isn’t a household name.

“Kiernan's subtly haunting voice draws the reader in.” - Publishers Weekly

“Kiernan’s writing - starkly visual, tongue in cheek and disturbingly visceral - carries the day.” - The New York Times Something out beyond the orbit of Pluto has made contact.Īnd a woman floating outside of time looks to the future and the past for answers to what can save humanity.Īgents of Dreamland is a new Lovecraftian horror novella from award-winning author Caitlín R. The future is coming and they will help to usher it in.Ī day after the events at the ranch house which disturbed the Signalman so deeply that he and his government sought out help from ‘other’ sources, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory abruptly loses contact with NASA's interplanetary probe New Horizons. In a ranch house near the shore of the Salton Sea a cult leader gathers up the weak and susceptible - the Children of the Next Level - and offers them something to believe in and a chance for transcendence. Later that day he meets a woman in a diner to exchange information about an event that happened a week earlier for which neither has an explanation, but which haunts the Signalman. A government special agent known only as the Signalman gets off a train on a stunningly hot morning in Winslow, Arizona.

Agents of Dreamland by Caitlín R. Kiernan