Dreamer
"This offbeat first novel of psychological horror keeps the reader alert with its sweeping, fast-paced transformations and canny fantasies of desire, success and inexplicable loss." -Publishers Weekly"Horror at the End of the Century: A Reading List." Included wereDreamer, Thomas Harris'sTheSilence of the Lambs, Peter Straub'sMrs. God, Doris Lessing'sThe Fifth Child, Dan Simmons'sChildren of the Night, and 57 others.  -The New York Review of Science Fiction"A good, convoluted first novel about a man who is either being fiendishly manipulated or is crazy." (Mentioned alongside such "noteworthy novels" as Doris Lessing'sThe Fifth Child,Peter Straub'sKoko, Thomas Harris'sThe Silence of the Lambs, and Anne Rice'sQueen of the Damned.) -- Ellen Datlow, The Year's Best Fantasy Second Annual Collection