title: The Waking: Dreams of the Dead (old edition)
author:  Thomas Randall 
description: Randall is a pseudonym for Christopher Golden, whose mysteries (including the Body of Evidence series) have a large teen following. Here, he fuses his trademark of suspenseful, creepy deaths with Japanese culture as 16-year-old Kara Foster and her professor father move to Kyoto to start over after the death of Karas mother. Both father and daughter are fluent in Japanese and obsessed with Japanese culture. Karas new school (where Mr. Foster teaches) is still reeling from the recent unsolved murder of a student, and even as Kara settles in and makes new friends, she suffers from debilitating nightmares that preview tragedies to come. The manga craze has hooked many a teen on Japanese culture, and Randall weaves much Japanese language, mythology, mores, and etiquette into this fast-paced opener to the Waking series. A somewhat clumsy epilogue baldly states what happened, but the thrill of nightmares, demons, and murders throughout counteract this weak ending. Grades 7-11. --Debbie Carton
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  **Dreaming**
  
  
  **Down-Under**
  
  
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  ## BOOK ONE
  
  
  Edited by JACK DANN and JANEEN WEBB
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Scanned & Proofed By MadMaxAU
  
  
  
  
  
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  **CONTENTS**
  
  
  
  
  
  **What Passes for a Preface**
  
  
  Harlan Ellison
  
  
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  ## Introduction
  
  
  ### Jack Dann and Janeen Webb
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  **Entre les Beaux Morts en Vie**
  
  
  **(Among the Beautiful Living Dead)**
  
  
  Sean Williams
  
  
  
  
  
  A **Walk-On Part in the War**
  
  
  Stephen Dedman
  
  
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  **The Man Who Lost His Shadow**
  
  
  Isobelle Carmody
  
  
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  **Night of the Wandjina**
  
  
  Wynne Whiteford
  
  
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  **The Dancing Floor**
  
  
  Cherry Wilder
  
  
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  **To Avalon**
  
  
  Jane Routley
  
  
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  **Ma Rung**
  
  
  Steven Paulsen
  
  
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  **Dream, Until God Burns**
  
  
  Andrew Enstice
  
  
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  **Queen of Soulmates**
  
  
  Sean McMullen
  
  
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  **The Doppelgänger Effect**
  
  
  Dirk Strasser
  
  
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  **The Marsh Runners**
  
  
  Paul Brandon
  
  
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  **Real Men**
  
  
  Rosaleen Love
  
  
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  **He Tried to Catch the Light**
  
  
  Terry D