Waiting on Wednesday 10/4/23
Waiting On Wednesday” is a weekly meme that first originated at Breaking the Spine but has since linked up with “Can’t Wait Wednesday” at Wishful Endings now that the original creator is unable to host it anymore. Either way, this fun feature is a chance to showcase the upcoming releases that we can’t wait to get our hands on!
Mogsy’s Pick
Mister Lullaby by J.H. Markert (November 21, 2023 by Crooked Lane Books)
“In the vein of T. Kingfisher and Christopher Golden, the boundary protecting our world from the monsters on the other side is weakening—and Mister Lullaby is about to break through.
The small town of Harrod’s Reach has seen its fair share of the macabre, especially inside the decrepit old train tunnel around which the town was built. After a young boy, Sully Dupree, is injured in the abandoned tunnel and left in a coma, the townspeople are determined to wall it up. Deputy sheriff Beth Gardner is reluctant to buy into the superstitions until she finds two corpses at the tunnel’s entrance, each left with strange calling cards inscribed with old lullabies. Soon after, Sully Dupree briefly awakens from his coma.
Before falling back into his slumber, Sully manages to give his older brother a message. Sully’s mind, since the accident, has been imprisoned on the other side of the tunnel in Lalaland, a grotesque and unfamiliar world inhabited by evil mythical creatures of sleep. Sully is trapped there with hundreds of other coma patients, all desperately fighting to keep the evils of the dream world from escaping into the waking world.
Elsewhere, a man troubled by his painful youth has for years been hearing a voice in his head he calls Mr. Lullaby, and he has finally started to act on what that voice is telling him—to kill any coma patient he can find, quickly.
Something is waking up in the tunnel—something is trying to get through. And Mr. Lullaby is coming.”
The BiblioSanctum 
For some reason, the cover image made me think of Stephen King’s IT and that raised my curiosity about this book even more…
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Oh, I have no doubt they are going for the Stephen King’s IT imagery!
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Ooh that looks creepy! Yeah, I was getting IT vibes too from that cover and I’ve never seen that movie or read the book but I know enough about it to recognize it! Lol!
Hope you enjoy this one once you get to read it!
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The yellow raincoat is definitely throwing IT vibes! I have no doubt it was purposeful 😀
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This sounds really creepy, I’ve never read this author before!
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Me neither, I recently learned of it and it sounds terrifying!
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This looks so good and I would love to read it, but there are some plot things that seem so so familiar and similar, but I just cannot think which book (or books) it was. I will have to investigate, haha.
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With the allusion to dreams, I was totally thinking Freddie Kruger myself 😀
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That sounds frightening and gripping!
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It really does!
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I love the cover for this but more than that the description has totally wowed me. Want
Lynn 😀
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The cover definitely catches the eye, but yes the description sounds terrifying!
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Oh my goodness! This one sounds truly terrifying… I hope you enjoy it, Mogsy:)).
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I have been browsing some reviews, and so far the consensus is that it’s scary! Very excited to check it out 😀
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