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Title details for Mister Lullaby by J. H. Markert - Available

Mister Lullaby

by J. H. Markert
David Bendena
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The small town of Harrod's Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel's entrance, each left with strange calling cards inscribed with old lullabies. Soon after, Sully Dupree briefly awakens from his coma. Before falling back into his slumber, Sully manages to give his older brother a message. Sully's mind, since the accident, has been imprisoned on the other side of the tunnel in Lalaland, a grotesque and unfamiliar world inhabited by evil mythical creatures of sleep. Sully is trapped there with hundreds of other coma patients, all desperately fighting to keep the evils of the dream world from escaping into the waking world. Elsewhere, a man troubled by his painful youth has for years been hearing a voice in his head he calls Mr. Lullaby, and he has finally started to act on what that voice is telling him—to kill any coma patient he can find, quickly. Something is waking up in the tunnel—something is trying to get through. And Mr. Lullaby is coming.

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    November 21, 2023

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      • ISBN: 9781666650792
      • File size: 349273 KB
      • Duration: 12:07:39

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • Library Journal

      March 1, 2024

      Markert's (The Nightmare Man) ode to Stephen King crams a lot into its run time. Gideon Dupree, recently discharged from the army, has returned home to Harrod's Reach, KS. He continues to pine for his best friend Beth, who's now a deputy sheriff, and is still blamed for the long-ago accident that left his younger brother in a coma. Gideon's homecoming coincides with the discovery of two bodies alongside the old train tunnel, which has always been the site of strange occurrences. Now monstrosities from a place called Lalaland are coming through the tunnel; they serve an entity known as Mister Lullaby. Markert creates a world that harkens back to King's small towns endangered by supernatural forces. The massive number of characters and the info dumps slow the story down, but the trade-off between narrators David Bendena and Laura Ezzo provides enlivening bursts of momentum. Patient audiences will be rewarded with a harrowing ending where nightmares run amok; it also sets up a sequel. VERDICT Those who enjoy King's Castle Rock novels or dark fantasies that involve a weakening veil between worlds should enjoy this journey to Lalaland.--James Gardner

      Copyright 2024 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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