Dreams

[vivdunstan]

Had a very weird dream this afternoon while Martin was taking books and magazines to the charity shop. It started off as a music theory lesson, in a wynd off South Street, St Andrews. Then the pair of us went to various old bookshops, including Quartos (much missed), and then (very not real!) an academic rare bookshop in South Street, towards Jannettas, which sold occult books. As I climbed higher up the floors the books in the shop got older and older, and on each floor a door would open out onto the street in the past. I then got involved in a mystery about a 17th century book and its owner, while a murderous taxi driver from the 19th century was chasing me through time. Even Dr Dee got involved in the story. And then, rather sadly, I woke up, and boggled Martin with the tale of my dream 😜

Comments

[watervole]

Sounds like a Dr Who episode...

[vivdunstan]

Felt more like a Call of Cthulhu RPG scenario to me, but to be fair I didn't so far encounter anything tentacled or Elder Gods!

[a_cubed]

Have you read autopope's New Management series? That sound very much like the door in the protag's house. Corridor rather than stairway, but leading out into variant versions of the past.

[vivdunstan]

Nope! I've only read two of the Laundry Files series, The Atrocity Archives and The Nightmare Stacks. And haven't got to the newer stuff yet.

[a_cubed]

He must have been telepathically broadcasting from the other side of the Forth!

Strange pair to have read. I mean, after the introduction of the world in The Atrocity Archives, you don't have to read them in order, but they do make more sense if read in sequence.

[vivdunstan]

I struggled with the first one, but was incredibly ill (very unstable neurological disease then) at the time. So it wasn't the best timing! After that I picked up a couple of the later ones in Kindle sales. But then decided to read the Nightmare Stacks years later because it was a little bit of a fresh start, with a new main character. Likely to read more, but not sure whether to go back to the start or dive in later :) But that's also likely to be a way off.