Welcome to The Dreaming

girls arriving at the front gate of Greenwich College

Amber and Jeanie Malkin are 15 year-old students at Greenwich Private College, a private boarding school located in North Sydney which is connected to vast virgin bushlands. The distinguished school has a hundred-year history, and is run entirely by its vice-principal, who has a strange and inexplicable prejudice against identical twins.

Jeanie and Amber in the taxiAfter settling in and meeting their new friends, the girls learn more about the history of the school and its mysterious surrounding bushlands, which they are warned against going into. This is because, time and again, young girls from the school have wandered off into the bush, and then vanished without a trace - as if the bush swallowed them whole. It has never been explained, just accepted by those who live in fear of it.

Soon after, the twins began having identical dreams, which neither can understand the meaning of. Exactly what is the meaning of the dreams? How are the dreams connected to the history of the school? And most of all, what is the mystery behind The Dreaming?

Rated: T for Teens. Ages 13+.
There is no blood, gore or violence in the story. It is a story written largely for teenagers, but which adults can also enjoy.

Read this if you like:
Manga: Bizenghast, Uzumaki
Movies: The Others, The Sixth Sense and other M. Night Shyamalan films, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Ring
Novels: The works of Edgar Allan Poe, and H.P. Lovecraft

A Three-Book Series

girls in the hallwayThe Dreaming is a single story, spanning 3 books of aproximately 175-200 pages each. Each book has a self-contained narrative arc, and consists of 7 chapters each. The story is pre-written and thus already planned, while the books themselves will be published after each one is completed.

Volume 1 was released in December 2005, Volume 2 in November 2006, and Volume 3 in December 2007. Since the story is a self-contained story, there are no plans for the continuation of the series. I planned this as a complete story, so it has been structured that way.

To purchase the books online, or to find a list of stores where you can buy it, please go here.