Thomas Grey is a lucid dreamer who can't wake up. Or is he a high school math teacher abandoned by sanity? Or a prophet? Whomever he is, he faces down demons of all types, traveling dreamspace, multiple dimensions and throughout the Etherea racing with a mysterious entity in his quest to find the archetypes under the threat that if he doesn't, his reality -- and yours -- could be destroyed. This is either an aggressive literary project, a chronicle of a man's struggle with madness or metaphysical thesis. You may decide which. The author's avant-garde style is reminiscent of Mark Z. Danielewski. The fantasticism reminds one of Neil Gaiman. The story is truly his own.

I could hear it coming. Soft, but seething. Like whispered profanity. Like a matchstick burning, slowly, backwards, ready to fire up at its sulfurous tip. I could taste it. Like blood, but sweeter. Like candy, but far more serious. So began the experimental dream safari into macabre madness that J. Ambrose Sweigart compiled in volume one of Whispers and Shadows. Volume two finds Thomas Grey still in the woods, struggling with the realization that his dreams are his reality - and yours - while also trying to understand the true nature of the universe, and racing to stop a mysterious force from altering all existence forever.