With the publication of his first novel,

Nightlight, acclaimed poet Michael

Cadnum demonstrated a touch for the

macabre on a par with the works of

Algernon Blackwood and Arthur Ma-

chert. "Genuinely spooky and immacu-

lately observed" (The Kirkus Reviews),

Michael Cadnum s work portrays a

unique and unsettling view of the

world, both in Nightlight and in this

eerie second novel, Sleepwalker.

Anthropologist Davis Lowry had it

all: success, fame, good looks, and

disturbing nightmares. When he wak-

ens from a bout of sleepwalking to find

himself perched on the balcony rail,

twelve stories above the ground, he

knows his life must change.

Davis joins a dig in York where a

team has unearthed a bog man, an

eighth-century male preserved whole

within the peat tannin. Hoping to

forget his troubles by studying the

Skeldergate Man, Davis finds instead

that the team have been plagued by

unsettling accidents. Very unsettling

accidents.

When the Skeldergate Man--or

something resembling it--is seen

walking the countryside at night, Davis

has to dig deep into the past to

confront the horrors buried there, both

those within his colleagues lives and

those within the earth itself. Peerhaps

then he can rest at last.