Sleepwalker

"Sleepwalker" is the sixth story in The Faceless P.I. by Thom Brannan.

This story finds The P.I. further along his descent from normalcy. He is plagued by nightmares and looking for something to stick his nose into, as it has been several months since his last assignment from the Temnota.

He decides to drive over to a small town in Texas, where there have been disappearances, but on the way he is sidetracked by Anita, whom he met during the events of "Skull Ring," and he owes her several favors.

She sends him to a doctor, who gives him a bottle of experimental pills to stop him from dreaming, as they believe his previous adventure in the Dreamlands has somehow changed the nature of the place, and the more he dreams, the more it changes.

So armed with pharmaceuticals, he continues on to Sunderville, where events lead him to a forced unconsciousness without the pills, plunging him again into the Dreamlands.

Story Notes
The events of this story tie in with those of one of Io's upcoming Seasons in the Abyss stories.