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It begins with a simple note. Roger Bascombe
wishes to inform Celeste Temple that their engagement is forthwith
terminated. But, Celeste, for all her lack of worldly experience,
is determined to find out why her fiancé should have thrown
her over so cruelly. Adopting a disguise, she follows her
erstwhile lover to the forbidding Harschmort manor, where
she discovers a world—by turns dizzyingly seductive
and utterly shocking—she could never have imagined,
and a conspiracy so terrifying as to be almost beyond belief.
Seething with danger, terror and romance, The Glass Books
of the Dream Eaters is a mammoth work of the imagination,
a deliriously readable, heartstoppingly suspenseful, and darkly
erotic masterpiece of storytelling.
Gordon Dahlquist is a
native of the Pacific Northwest, where he worked for several
years writing and directing plays. Since 1988 he has lived
in New York. He has been a member of New Dramatists, is a
New York Theatre Workshop Usual Suspect, and a founding member
of the CiNE. His works include Messalina (Evidence
Room, Los Angeles: SPF, New York), text for Babylon Is
Everywhere: A Court Masque (CiNE, Schaeberle Theatre;
Theatre Magazine), Delirium Palace (Evidence
Room, Los Angeles; published in Breaking Ground), The
Secret Machine (Twilight Theatre Company at Solo Rep),
Vortex du Plaisir (Ice Factory ’99 Festival at the
Ohio Theatre, WKCR’S Manhattan Theatre of the Air), Island
of Dogs (4th Street Theatre), Severity’s Mistress (Soho
Rep Theatre, New York University; winner of Primary stages’
Bug &Bub award), Mission Byzantium! (American Globe
Theatre, NYTW’s Just Add Water Festival), and Reitcence
(Horace Mann Theatre).
He has written and directed several experimental films, that
have been selected for the San Francisco International Film
Festival, the Seattle International Film Festival, and the
Northwest Film and Video Film Festival. He is a graduate of
Reed College and Columbia University’s School of the Arts.
He has received two Garland Playwriting Awards for Messalina
and Delirium Palace.
THE GLASS BOOKS OF THE DREAM EATERS is his first
novel.
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