DREAM WOMAN

Originally published in Household Words in 1885 as The Ostler, but recast and expanded two decades later, The Dream Woman is a powerfully dark and suspenseful multi-narrative novella from the master of the mystery genre and author of The Moonstone and The Woman In White in which he pioneered 'sensation' writing. When Francis Raven is roused from his sleep on the eve of his birthday and confronted by the sight of a woman trying to stab him, he is unsure whether she is real or an apparition. Years later against the wishes of his mother, he marries Alicia, a woman with a strange resemblance to the mysterious visitor who ends up attacking him on his birthday, before vanishing from his life. Is Francis's wife a ghost, a demon or a living human being? Will the prophecy of the night-time visitation be fulfilled one day? 144pp, paperback.