Even before November, the year felt, to me, like a single sleepless night spent absorbing an interminable series of nightmares through my phone.
Ligeti's world of imagination was simultaneously an asylum, a place of refuge, and a place to process the horror of the 20th century's great geo-political nightmares through which he lived.
It could also reduce the intensity and number of nightmares through the night.
Hampton Sides's Hellhound on His Trail (Allen Lane), a gripping account of the hunt for James Earl Ray, reminds us once again that a lot of Americans in the 1960s were living through a nightmare, not through a long, dreamy summer of love.
Already on antidepressants, which gave him tremors, he had a waking nightmare sitting through the trial.
They show a serious understanding of the Dutch repertoire of nightmare, channelled through Freud.
But, and this is just one indication of Laub's skill, the Nazi nightmare comes through in the grandfather's obsessive identification of "the most rigorous of hygiene regimes" in everything he praises.
"It's a nightmare getting through Kingsthorpe as it currently stands, so I am happy that it has been turned down.
This May, Eluvium will release his sixth album, a sprawling double-disc release titled Nightmare Ending through Brooklyn label Temporary Residence.
