

The novel begins as a government agent known only as the Signalman gets off of a train in Winslow, Arizona on a stunningly hot day.

This is a short book - 123 pages - but it provides a disturbing and haunting peek at the beginning of the end of the world. When I found out that a new Kiernan novella came out recently, Agents of Dreamland (2017), I immediately snapped it up. I also was awed by her 2009 novel The Red Tree (which I read but never blogged about, for some reason). Several years ago, I blogged about her beautiful, dark and haunting novel The Drowning Girl, a ghost story that I rank as not only a classic of the genre but a classic of literature.

Taking a brief break from posts on quantum entanglement - will be back with more on that subject soon! Meanwhile…Ĭaitlin R.
