The Sleep Room, F. R. Tallis
The Sleep Room, F. R. Tallis
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The Sleep Room

Author: F. R. Tallis

Narrator: Matthew Brenher

Unabridged: 8 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/01/2013

Categories: Fiction, Horror

Synopsis

From Edgar nominee F. R. Tallis comes his latest tale of psychological suspenseand a brilliant reinvention of the ghost story. When promising young psychiatrist James Richardson is offered the job opportunity of a lifetime by the charismatic Dr. Hugh Maitland, he is thrilled. Setting off to take up his post at Wyldehope Hall in deepest Suffolk, Richardson doesnt look back. One of his tasks is to manage Maitlands most controversial projecta pioneering therapy in which extremely disturbed patients are kept asleep for months. If this radical and potentially dangerous procedure is successful, it could mean professional glory for both doctors. As Richardson settles into his new life, he begins to sense something uncanny about the sleeping patientssix women, forsaken by society. Why is Maitland unwilling to discuss their past lives? Why is the trainee nurse so on edge when she spends nights alone with them? And what can it mean when all the sleepers start dreaming at the same time? In this atmospheric reinvention of the ghost story, Richardson finds himself questioning everything he knows about the human mind as he attempts to uncover the shocking secrets of the sleep room.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Sue on November 23, 2013

This book pushed all those buttons for me. Hints of Gothic and the paranormal, mysterious people in out of the way places caring for what appear to be "hopeless and helpless" psychiatric patients. And in the English countryside. What else could this reader want? Not much else actually. The story is t......more

Goodreads review by Guy on September 29, 2013

"I did not recognize the sound at first. It arrived as nothing more than a subtle incursion: something seeping between the accumulated layers of silence.” The Sleep Room is outstanding. Suspenseful, compelling, and atmospheric, this has to be the creepiest book I’ve read in a long time, but far more......more

Goodreads review by Adam on March 07, 2014

Much to enjoy and admire in THE SLEEP ROOM, that is, quite literally, a novel of psychological horror, as it is set in a psychiatric hospital. Echoes of McGrath's ASYLUM, with a twist of Aickman and M R James. Some masterly set-pieces and a fascinating study of a man of science confronted by the unc......more

Goodreads review by Blair on February 22, 2022

(Review originally published on my blog, December 2013) A naive young doctor, James Richards, is offered an intriguing position as the head of a mental hospital in the Suffolk countryside. With no ties in London, and eager to impress his charismatic psychiatrist boss, he wastes no time in setting of......more

Goodreads review by Tabatha on July 14, 2013

I don't know if this is just me? And because I'm a massive horror movie fan, and I have only just started reading scary type books, that I expected so much more from this kind of book. But I enjoyed it, never quite knowing where the story is leading you until the very end. That's how I like my endin......more

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