Once Upon a Nightmare
Lee Moylan is a fiction writer with a BS degree in Biochemistry from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She lives outside of Chicago in the Northwest suburbs with her three children.
Besides a fascination with biology and chemistry, she has a passion for the art of forensics. She has studied many books on the subject as well as those on serial killers. Instead of pursuing a career in forensic chemistry, she decided to raise a family and turn her intellectual and creative talents to the writing of haunting fiction.
Her desire to comprehend the almost incomprehensible has driven her to create a frighteningly believable tale that explores the depths a deranged mind can go. The murderer of Once Upon a Nightmare combines elements of actual criminals.
She has completed her second novel, Fatal Charade, and is currently working on her third.
Please take it away, Lee!
Once Upon a Nightmare is a dark tale about two women that share a kind of psychic bond and the serial killer who has targeted them. The killer in my story is quite sadistic and his deeds, beyond disturbing. People may wonder where a character as twisted and evil as mine comes from. The answer is research – lots and lots of research.
For over twenty years I have read books on serial killers, murderers and sociopaths. Besides sleepless nights and heart-pounding nightmares, these true stories have guided my creation of a character that makes Hannibal Lechter look like a gentleman. But the killer had to be despicable – the acts of cruelty, beyond disturbing. That is who they are. That is what they do. Their crimes are committed without conscience, without guilt, without empathy. And they are real.
So I attempted to take my readers some place dark, some place cold, some place twisted – into the mind of a killer. The character in Once Upon a Nightmare is a combination of three real serial killers. The murder scenes are quite graphic and gruesome. They leave nothing to the imagination. But I believe they are necessary to experience the true evil these people possess.
When I wrote this story, I wanted the reader to feel those scenes. To be put in the shoes of the victim no matter how uncomfortable it made them. I wanted them to go some place they don’t normally go. And come out more wise. I hope my readers leave with more than just icy chills!
Happy Reading…
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Once Upon a Nightmare
On the night of October thirteenth, the Hunter's Moon descended upon the quiet town of White Chapel. As Sara Bishop drifted off to sleep under its soft illumination, the full moon seemed to have brought with it something far more sinister than a warm glow.
At once, the nightmare started. But this wasn't any ordinary nightmare… This one seemed real ─ as if she could smell it, feel it, taste it. It was one of those dreams ─ one that awakened her witch-like sense ─ a harbinger of heartbreak and now, horror.
Together with Rebecca Parker, the only other person who understood her gift, someone who had experienced her own strange senses, Sara hoped to come to terms with this ominous nightmare. But her closest friend and next door neighbor was no where to be found ─ not since the night of October thirteenth.
And so it begins. With little help from her skeptical husband or local police, Sara finds herself virtually alone as her grisly dreams crawl from the darkness to become a sick and twisted reality ─ a reality where she has become the ultimate desire of a sadistic serial killer.
As images of death, phantoms and shadows surround Sara, she needs to listen to the whispers in her mind, use her gift to unmask those around her, for one of them is the man from her nightmare. And he sees her when she's sleeping… He knows when she's awake.
When the next full moon descends upon White Chapel, he will reveal himself to her. And under its silvery glow, a new nightmare will be born. Will Sara Bishop have to experience death itself to stop this killer? Or will her nightmare never end?
If you have any questions Lee would be happy to answer them, thanks!
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