Night Terrors

Fascinating - just don’t read it at bedtime. * The Observer *Curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine … a remarkable debut. * Sunday Times *By writing this gruelling, honest book, Alice Vernon has done her small bit to try to puncture the power of nightmares. * Daily Mail *In a discourse fired by lively inquiry and personal anecdote, [Vernon] looks to art, literature and science to demonstrate the profound effect these eerie and surprisingly common nocturnal states have had on the human imagination. Fascinating - just don’t read it at bedtime. * The Observer *Fascinating … a rich, immersive study of not just nightmares but the full range of parasomnias - the strange sleep disorders that can afflict us. … [Vernon] can really write. … This book felt like an extended hand to me. It is curious, lively, humble, utterly genuine - and, if you’re a sufferer too, wonderfully reassuring. It is a remarkable debut. * Sunday Times *A vivid history of sleep disorders … a candid, intense look at what keeps people up at night. * Publishers Weekly *A welcome addition to the vast library it cites and celebrates, Vernon’s work is a compelling guide to the uncanny grammar of our dread and desire. * Fortean Times *

Dr Alice Vernon is Lecturer in Creative Writing at Aberystwyth University, where she teaches students the fundamentals of storytelling. Her research focuses on representations of sleep in science and culture. This is her first book.