Paula Trachtman

The opening of the Kirkus review of this sums it up nicely: “A tidal dose of slopping horror, glittery-eyed incest, parapsychological smut, perversion, and assorted dismemberments--all handled with banal amateurishness”. If that sounds like your idea of fun, then I heartily recommend ‘Disturb Not the Dream’. I discovered it randomly on eBay, found it was available for free on Kindle Unlimited and jumped straight in. At least one cover I’ve seen describes it as a “National Bestseller”, but I’d never heard of it and can find little about it online (no author pic of Paula Trachtman for example).
The book is easy reading (if you can handle the subject matter) and packed with all the ingredients that make this kind of gothic chiller such nasty fun. It’s kind of like ‘Flowers in the Attic’ on steroids..and acid...with added nuns, family tombs, gore, ghosts, hurricanes, sex clubs and psychiatrists. It isn’t well written (did you expect it to be?) and features a twist that is both totally obvious and wildly unbelievable, but for all that it’s a grotesquely enjoyable melodrama.… (más)