7.8 /10 1 Votes
Language English Publication date 31 May 1987 Originally published 31 May 1987 Followed by Sleeping in Flame | 3.9/5 Goodreads Publisher Century Press Pages 216 pp (1st ed. HB) Country United States of America | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Media type Print (Hardback & Paperback) ISBN 0-7126-1504-0 (1st ed. HB) Genres Horror fiction, Fantasy literature Nominations Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel Similar Jonathan Carroll books, Answered Prayers books, Fantasy books | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bones of the Moon is a novel by Jonathan Carroll, depicting the real and dream life of a young woman, Cullen James. Like many of Carroll's works, this work straddles the horror and fantasy genres.
Contents
Plot introduction
Cullen James is a young woman dwelling in two worlds. A happy housewife by day, by dream she is one of several questers after the Bones of the Moon. Somehow, though, one of these worlds is starting to carry over into the other, in frightening ways.
Explanation of the novel's title
The Bones of the Moon are five bones that give power over the dream world in which Cullen James spends her time.
Plot summary
Living in New York, Cullen James's best wishes were being fulfilled. Her best friend marries her; she travels in Europe; she has a baby daughter. But strange dreams begin to intrude.
By night, in dreams, she begins to visit a strange land called Rondua, where the sea is full of fish with mysterious names, where she and a huge, behatted dog escort a young boy named Pepsi across places such as the Northern Stroke, the Mountains of Coin and Brick, the Plain of Forgotten Machines.
As her days become more disjointed and episodic, her dreams grow in intensity, and she learns more about the adversary she and her dream friends race against, searching for the last of the Bones of the Moon. Bit by bit, the events in Rondua start affecting her life on earth, intersecting in unpleasant, then frightening ways.