Pat Kelbaugh

Darke House: a Dreamtime Novel Pat Kelbaugh

Darke House, the first novel in the Dreamtime series, introduces a world that is invisible, but all around us. A parallel dimension, if you will, between our living world and the world beyond. Populated by ghosts. You see, dreamtime isn't a measure of time. It's a place. The story unfolds in Milltown, a small town on the southeast coast of Connecticut. There is nothing remarkable about it, about the beach and meadows across the bay from Point of Ospreys. Nothing you can see, anyway. Within dreamtime, however, it is beyond remarkable. Amazing. Extraordinarily good. Imagine that two modern Connecticut casino tribes acquire that Milltown beach and meadow, and then build a spectacular shoreline resort directly superimposed upon a Victorian ghost house, a house that its dreamtime residents call Darke House. What would happen if, one September, they were threatened by two storms - one, a vicious hurricane from the physical world, and the other, a monstrous storm from the parallel dimension? No one within the ghostly walls of Darke House need worry. However, if you are not within, you need to be very, very afraid.