Book: Twelve Resident Dreaming

Author: William Pauley III

Thank you NetGalley and Doom Fiction Audio for an advanced audio copy.

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Twelve Residents Dreaming is the seventh book in The Bedlam Bible series. You do not need to read the others to enjoy this one but I definitely recommend you do.

I have said this before and I will continue to say this, I don’t want to know what is in William Pauley III’s mind. The ideas he comes up with are sick, gory, insane, scary, beautiful, basically any adjective you want to choose can work and I love every second of it. Then when you have all of these thoughts narrated by Connor Brannigan, you simply get perfection. 

This was a longer book than the other entries in the series but it was filled with 12 short stories. Each story was intriguing, some were better than others but even the ones I liked the least, I still loved. 

Pauley has a talent for world-building and character design like no other. He builds a scene and multiple characters in such a short time. He develops and flushes out characters in a 30-minute short story better than some authors do in a 12-hour novel. Every time he does this I am amazed all over again. In this story he didn’t just do this once or twice, he did it every time.

The Bedlam Bible is a terrific series for fans of horror and anyone who can appreciate fantastic writing. Make sure you check out Twelve Residents Dreaming.

Final score: 5/5