Obscure book I can't find - Can you help me?

[Trish]

I'm looking for a specific horror/thriller book.

It was about a younger kid (female, I'm pretty sure), who had night terrors. Night terrors that weren't night terrors, they were real - attacking her inside her mind and had just started leaving physical marks when I lost the book.

The cover had a dark mountain and an open-mouthed/roaring bear. Maybe some other animals. Primarily dark blue I think. By thickness I'd say it was probably around 600 pages.

I was reading it on a camping/fishing trip out of state when I was 11. I think I picked it up at a yard sale on the way to Virginia. It was a beat up paperback already when I got it.

It was lost in the madness of packing when a hurricane was incoming and I have been looking for it ever since. Usually I can remember a lot of details, can see covers in my head complete with names when I'm this interested. This one I can't and it's beyond frustrating. I've tried every search, forums, etc. No dice. This book literally still haunts me 33 years later. I need to know what happened. Please help me

 

[Luxuria]

Is it this one? : Review – Night Terrors by Maya Forrester

Or this: https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Book-1-Lisa-McMann/dp/1416974474

 

[Trish]

Is it this one? : Review – Night Terrors by Maya Forrester

Or this: https://www.amazon.com/Wake-Book-1-Lisa-McMann/dp/1416974474

Sadly, no. Neither of those are old enough. I'm old, so I was reading it in August of 1991 and the copy I had gotten was already well worn. Which doesn't really mean anything as it could have been new and just kicked around a garage floor or something, but it had to be published in 1991 or earlier.

Night Terrors looks really good though so I'm going to add that to my TBR pile.

Thank you very much for trying!

 

[GrahamLewis]

I'm looking for a specific horror/thriller book.

It was about a younger kid (female, I'm pretty sure), who had night terrors. Night terrors that weren't night terrors, they were real - attacking her inside her mind and had just started leaving physical marks when I lost the book.

The cover had a dark mountain and an open-mouthed/roaring bear. Maybe some other animals. Primarily dark blue I think. By thickness I'd say it was probably around 600 pages.

I was reading it on a camping/fishing trip out of state when I was 11. I think I picked it up at a yard sale on the way to Virginia. It was a beat up paperback already when I got it.

It was lost in the madness of packing when a hurricane was incoming and I have been looking for it ever since. Usually I can remember a lot of details, can see covers in my head complete with names when I'm this interested. This one I can't and it's beyond frustrating. I've tried every search, forums, etc. No dice. This book literally still haunts me 33 years later. I need to know what happened. Please help me

I did that once with a book I had loved as a kid in our school library. I recalled only the story line and that it involved red and gray squirrels, but eventually I came up with it and found it via interlibrary loan. I think the librarian helped me sort it out. But a "beat-up paperback" might be long out of print. Mine turned out to be a fairly well-known British allegory about Hitler.

 

[CdnWriter]

Reddit can be very helpful with these questions at r/suggestmeabook or....I can't remember the name....there is a subreddit for finding books as well, maybe r/findbook or similar, r/helpmefind....?

 

[CatrionaGrace]

I'm convinced that whatever some librarian can't find simply doesn't exist. Not being a librarian, I can't find the book for you, but I did find THIS which may be of some help.