People-primarily young ones, of course-flock to concert halls or theaters where they don the VR glasses and experience other people’s nightmares. In the book, the machine that can do this is called a “dreamatron”, and it quickly becomes an addictive form of entertainment that surpasses TV and movies. The premise is one that I’m pretty sure Blake Crouch would be envious of: science creates a way for a person’s dreams and nightmares to be recorded and played back via a virtual-reality system. Grady Hendrix and Will Errickson resurrected Boatman’s novel from obscurity in 2020 under the “Paperbacks From Hell” series from Valancourt Books, and the world hasn’t been the same since. Garrett Boatman has written and published several novels, but he is perhaps best known for his uncategorizably weird, gory, and somewhat prophetic 1988 horror novel “Stage Fright”.
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