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      Deadly Sleep

      by John Applegate
      Published
      Nov 1988
      Main Genre
      Horror Horror
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      A FATAL COMPULSION

      Paul Anderson had a problem. He was afraid to go to sleep. He was afraid that if he let himself fall asleep, even for a moment, he might do something terrible. Like give in to the strange compulsion that drove him to take the butcher knife from the kitchen drawer. And listen to the voices that tempted him to plunge it into the heart of his only son…

      A KILLING OBSESSION

      David sensed that something was wrong. His father was acting weird. As if he didn't like him anymore. As if he was afraid of him somehow. David wondered if his dead expected to find when he looked in on David late at night, thinking he was asleep. And he wondered why he was carrying around the big, newly sharpened kitchen knife…

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      Speculative Fiction

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      Horror

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      First Edition Nov 1988 Pinnacle ISBN13 9781558171398 ISBN10 1558171398
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