Stuff

Coming in August 2010 from Random House Children's Books

Timothy July has a secret. And it's giving him nightmares. Abigail Tremens has a problem. Her nightmares are haunting her...while she is awake. When they team up for a school project, they don't realize that Abigail's past and Timothy's present are making them the target of a terrible curse. A curse that turns their worst fears to reality. But their fears are just the beginning. The curse stems from a strange artifact that gains strength by devouring a human soul. And it needs to feed again. Dan Poblocki has written another bone-chilling page-turner to give you goose bumps. It's the kind of book best read on a bright afternoon...which may keep your own nightmares at bay.

Where The Nightmarys came from:

Several years ago, I awoke from a dream in which I'd been standing in a garden. Along the edges of the garden, a group of girls, clad in white dresses, watched me. There was something so odd and creepy about them that the dream stuck. I knew immediately that they were The Nightmarys. Months later, my friend Charlie showed me some of his paintings. He'd found some Victorian photographs and gone over the images with translucent white paint. In one, a group of girls stands side by side, their bodies blending together. A blur of gauze. Their faces are just barely visible behind this veil. I was struck by how similar Charlie's image was to the one from my dream. It made me wonder: who were these girls? Why did they keep appearing to me? I knew then that I needed to find out by telling their story.