Turner Publishing
October 2017
On Sale: October 10, 2017
288 pages ISBN: 1683365879 EAN: 9781683365877 Kindle: 1683365879 Paperback / e-Book Add to Wish List
When seven-year-old Jamie falls down a very long hill, he finds himself trapped in a world of strange creatures, harsh landscapes, and near-perpetual darkness. Lost and confused, Jamie is desperate to get home. The nightmares, fears, and all manner of what-ifs that inhabit this shadow world are unfamiliar to himβall except one: the Lairdbalor, Jamieβs personal nightmare, once relegated to his dreams. In this fantastical land, however, the Lairdbalor and all the fears and nightmares of children are very real.
But Jamieβs nightmare is different. It is the sum total of the anger and anxiety that imprisoned him in his former life, and it threatens to consume and rule the nightmare realm, a place where time passes differently. With each slumber, Jamie finds himself inexorably changed. The farther he travels through this terrifying world, the better he understands the one he left behind.
Crossing genres of folklore, horror, fantasy, and magical realism, The Lairdbalor is a story for anyone who lives with anxiety and fear and has ever wondered βwhat if?β It is the story of a child not meant for children and a darkly imaginative meditation on life, death, fear, and the nature of reality.
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