I had been meaning to post in this thread for a couple of months just to thank Kyberean for bringing up this quaint little story from Ramsey Campbell's collection "Uncanny Banquet". It is truly amazing that this novelette has yet to be reprinted.
The one out of print nugget that I'll share is from the English author Catherine Storr called "Marianne Dreams" (1958) from which the movie Paperhouse (1989) was based.
Although it is considered a "Young Adult" book, I believe that is simply based on the fact that the main character is a 10 year old girl.
It's about a girl that get's feverishly ill and becomes bed ridden. While bed ridden she starts to draw a picture of a house using a pencil she found in her grandmothers sewing(?) basket, and is amazed that when she dreams what she has drawn appears in her dreams as real as the real world. While dreaming an ill boy (He can't move his legs) appears in her dreams, and together they have to struggle with an unknown horror inside the the dreams (Where's Randolf Carter when you need him).
I just read this a couple years ago and thought the story and atmosphere was very enjoyable. If you check out the reviews on Amazon, there all from adults that enjoyed it as much as I did.
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Kyberean Wrote:
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> Without question, the finest near-unknown work of
> weird fiction, to my mind, is Adrian Ross's 1914
> novel The Hole of the Pit.
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> Although it displays touches of naive domesticity
> that no doubt would have repelled Lovecraft, I
> also must recommend Eleanor Ingram's 1921 novel
> The Thing from the Lake, of I am also very fond,
> and which is very Lovecraftian, in certain
> respects.
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> Speaking of Lovecraft, as an aside, I agree with
> Lovecraft with regard to Hoffmann.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 17 Jul 10 | 07:49PM by Dunwichsouth.