The Sleeping Sickness

By: European P. Douglas

Narrated by: James Daniel Burkdoll

If you die in a dream, you die in real life - that used to be a myth!

Howell Warren hasn't seen another human face for over five years. If he did, that person could die at any time. This is the world of the "Sleeping Sickness".

As the world recovers from a devastating solar flare, society is just getting back on track when a strange phenomena begins. Violent dreams are coming true all over the world. Those featured in the dreams are killed in real life, showing terrible injuries like those in the dreams. No one is safe because no one can control their dreams.

The more worried people become, the more likely they are to have bad thoughts at night. It's only a matter of time before you kill someone. At least that was how it was until everyone started wearing masks and disguises, and people began to forget the faces of everyone they ever knew.

In this new world, the reemerging internet is filled with rumor and fear. Howell Warren hates living behind a mask. His new love, Catherine - many cities away - feels the same. Their one hope of a 'normal' life is to travel over dangerous, still mostly lawless terrain to make it to the city of Asitwas, a place where everyone lives as before and the only time people wear masks is at Halloween.

Can they manage to meet and cross hostile terrain to make their dreams come true. Or will the lawless world or the Sleeping Sickness get to them first?

If you liked A Quiet Place, The Silence, or Birdbox you'll love this speculative horror from E. P Douglas.

©2021 Rory McNeill (P)2022 Rory McNeill

The Sleeping Sickness

Wow!What a horrifying story! Imagine this happening.A solar flare then a sickness that kills people you dream about? I think European P. Douglas did a pretty good job of how humanity would act.James Daniel Burkdoll was a fine narrator. I was given this free review copy audiobook at my request and have voluntarily left this review.

Intense and Unique

The story of Howie, Catherine and Becky is one intense heart pounding book packed full of action that is sure to give you nightmares. The Sleeping Sickness is a descriptive dystopian book that will make you start to wonder "what if" and "could you survive" if this ever came about. James Daniel Burkdoll did an amazing job bring this creepy story to life as well as giving my imagination legs to run. I highly recommend this book to dystopian book lovers. This is my honest review that I am freely giving. I received a copy of this book for free at my request.

Very entertaning

This is a great entertaining audio book that I listened to on my 12 hour car ride and it made the ride much more enjoyable. It is a very intriguing story with an intense plot. Highly recommend.

An excellent post-apocalypse story!

One thing I have come to expect from European P Douglas’s work is to be thoroughly entertained, and The Sleeping Sickness was no different. Mr. Douglas has mixed part adventure story, part pandemic /dystopian post-apocalypse story and throw in a bit of a love story and the result is a story that I could not stop listening to until the very end, and what an end it was!! For fans of Mr. Douglas’s work, this is a must read/listen story - It’s one of his best. James Daniel Burkdoll’s narration of the audiobook is spot on, he does an excellent job of bringing this story to life.

Good Premise

Thoroughly enjoyable story that keeps a good pace throughout. Very tense in parts and the different elements come together nicely. Intriguing story line that is both out there and believable all at the same time.
Narration and editing were also top notch. Will definitely be listening to more from EPD. I received this audiobook for free in exchange for my review from Story Origin and the author.