THE DREAMCATCHER ‘DYSFUNCTION’ ROOM
Exploring what fiction can actually achieve physically in the brain as well as mentally or spiritually. It’s meant as a positive for a book to be listed on this page, as a work reaching beyond even the hyper-imaginative.
Links are to the real-time reviews.
The Function Room: The Kollection by Matt Leyshon
Islington Crocodiles – Paul Meloy
The English Soil Society – by Tim Nickels
THE DARK TOWER SERIES by Stephen King
Rameau’s Nephew by Denis Diderot
The Inmates – John Cowper Powys
THE MERCURY ANNUAL / PILGRIMS AT THE WHITE HORIZON by Michael Wyndham Thomas
MEMBER by Michael Cisco
Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
Letters of Oblivion by Andrew Condous
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath by HP Lovecraft
Ana Kai Tangata – Scott Nicolay
AREA X – Jeff VanderMeer
TRISTRAM SHANDY by Laurence Sterne
The King In Yellow – by Robert W. Chambers
THE FAMILIAR – Mark Z. Danielewski
The Infusorium – Jon Padgett
The Sacred Fount by Henry James
DREAMCATCHER by Stephen King
The King in Yellow Tales, Vol. 1 by Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.
EXTINCTION by Thomas Bernhard
A Choir of Ill Children by Tom Piccirilli
The Des Lewis Gestalt Real-Time Reviews 
The list above was created on 30 July 2015, as recorded in the comment streams of many of the real-time reviews themselves.
Any new additions will be recorded below in this comment stream…
This is not a Best Of list, but just works that seem to fit a category of literature rarely identified as such.
An Infunctionarium: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2015/07/29/gateways-to-abomination/#comment-5054
GATEWAYS TO ABOMINATION by Matthew M. Bartlett
A worthy addition to this room.
And its sequel CREEPING WAVES here: https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/04/24/creeping-waves-matthew-m-bartlett/#comment-6981
By the way, my two tentative contenders from my own work for entry into the Dysfuntion Room:
Weirdtonue: The Glistenberry Romance: Visit to the Narrative Hospital (novella)
Nemonymous Night (novel)
A new addition, well worthy of its place in this room:
CANNIBALS OF WEST PAPUA by Brendan Connell.
And another:
DEATH CAMP DREAM SONGS by Matt Leyshon.
REPORT ON PROBABILITY A by Brian Aldiss
THE COMPLETE STORIES OF CLARICE LISPECTOR
THE NIGHT CLOCK BY PAUL MELOY
WELCOME TO THE ARMS RACE by Justin Isis
The ALECTRYOMANCER collection by Christopher Slatsky:
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/03/18/alectryomancer-christopher-slatsky/
Mr. Lewis,
I am quite flattered to have been inducted into the ‘DYSFUNCTION’ ROOM. Thank you for your inspirational insight and exploration of my stories. I am humbled.
Sincerely,
Christopher Slatsky
MR. SUICIDE by Nicole Cushing
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/04/25/mr-suicide-nicole-cushing/
BLEAKWARRIOR by Alistair Rennie
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/06/10/bleakwarrior-alistair-rennie/
THE CARNIVORE OF MONSTERS by Stuart Young:
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/06/18/marked-to-die/#comment-7484
CLICK By Brian Evenson.
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/07/19/a-collapse-of-horses/#comment-7914
THE MANY by Wyl Menmuir
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2016/08/16/the-many-wyl-menmuir/
OMENSETTER’S LUCK by William H Gass
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/01/01/omensetters-luck-william-h-gass/
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/hieroglyphs-of-blood-and-bone-michael-griffin/
HIEROGLYPHS OF BLOOD AND BONE by Michael Griffin
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/07/03/under-the-volcano-malcolm-lowry/
UNDER THE VOLCANO by Malcolm Lowry
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/06/07/the-quarantined-city-james-everington/
THE QUARANTINED CITY by James Everington
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/06/09/the-wanderer-timothy-j-jarvis/
THE WANDERER by Timothy J Jarvis
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/07/11/the-best-horror-of-the-year-volume-9/#comment-10202
THE PROCESS IS A PROCESS ALL ITS OWN by PETER STRAUB
…AND THE STAGNATION OF THE HEART by Brian Aldiss
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/08/31/the-moment-of-eclipse-brian-aldiss/#comment-10641
THE CURIOUS CASE OF JAN TORRENTIUS by Brian Howell
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/09/18/the-curious-case-of-jan-torrentius-brian-howell/
THE SWAN DIVE by Stephen Laws
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/09/22/new-fears/#comment-10831
THEATRE OF CURIOUS ACTS by Cate Gardner
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/11/28/theatre-for-curious-acts-cate-gardner/
THE UNCONSOLED by Kazuo Ishiguro
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2017/09/16/the-unconsoled-kazuo-ishiguro/#comment-11282
http://stjoshi.org/review_vandermeer.html
THE AMMONITE VIOLIN & OTHERS by Caitlín R. Kiernan
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/02/20/the-ammonite-violin-others-caitlin-r-kiernan/
The Parry and The Lunge by David Mathew:
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/the-parry-and-the-lunge-david-mathew/
The Boke of the Divill by Reggie Oliver
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2018/06/06/the-boke-of-the-divill-reggie-oliver/
The Surviving Child by Joyce Carol Oates
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/08/28/echoes-edited-by-ellen-datlow/#comment-16897
Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2019/12/05/dead-astronauts-jeff-vandermeer/
Allus Cold by Matt Leyshon
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/01/14/allus-cold-by-matt-leyshon/
Desmodus by Melanie Tem
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/02/19/desmodus-melanie-tem/#comment-18384
GO BACK AT ONCE by Robert Aickman
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2020/11/23/go-back-at-once-robert-aickman/
I, HARUSPEX by Christopher Priest
https://dflewisreviews.wordpress.com/2021/02/25/episodes-christopher-priest/#comment-21135
MILLS OF SILENCE by Charles Wilkinson
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