Ancient Horror History REPUBLISHED: A guest review of Do Not Disturb The Dream by Paula Trachtman

Capricorn Literary continues to republish some old school "Paperbacks from Hell" and as the end of year gets closer, I've enlisted some help of friend's to get through reviewing some of the books I've been sent for review.

 Chris Mayek says of DNTD:

 "It's nothing original - a family a four moves into a seemingly nice home with a haunting past - in this case, following Amityville exactly, with a gruesome murder happening there decades prior. It progressively ends up affecting each family member differently. You've read this before, likely several different examples of it. Disturb Not The Dream is unfortunately one of the more boring versions of the haunted house trope book. It's written well enough, similar to any other early 80s horror author, but it is bogged down by over explanations of non-horror scenarios in it's too-long length. There was a funny scene in the beginning - The older sister teasing her slightly younger, nerdy brother sexually before he gets flustered and flees - But (sadly) no other 80's movie-esque comedy scenes such as that appear in the book. If you want a genuinely scary and/or engaging haunted house novel from this decade, check out titles such as Satan's Snowdrop by Guy Smith, Harbinger by Michael T Hinkemeyer, Charnel House by Graham Masterton, and Dream House by Christopher Fahy. I'd give Disturb Not The Dream a 2.5/10"

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