Novels

The Nights Dream series takes place in the realms most familiar to you. They are books that dwell in the shadows you think you see out of the corner of your eye, our world and yet not the one we would want to admit. In a twisted version of the Hudson Valley, one occupied by vampire maternity nurses and self-interested angels, by displaced spirits wearing the masks of aliens, by possessed pumpkins and tree sprites who teach botany to ungrateful undergrads, the characters deal with the strangest circumstance of all: trying to figure out what it means to lead a normal life. Thomm Quackenbush is an author and teacher in the Hudson Valley. He has published four novels in his Night's Dream series (, and, and Flies to Wanton Boys ). He has sold jewelry in Victorian England, confused children as a mad scientist, filed away more books than anyone has ever read, and tried to inspire the learning disabled and gifted. He is capable of crossing one eye, raising one eyebrow, and once accidentally groped a ghost. When not writing, he can be found biking, hiking the Adirondacks, grazing on snacks at art openings, and keeping a straight face when listening to people tell him they are in touch with 164 species of interstellar beings.