I could hear it coming. Soft, but seething. Like whispered profanity. Like a matchstick burning, slowly, backwards, ready to fire up at its sulfurous tip. I could taste it. Like blood, but sweeter. Like candy, but far more serious. So began the experimental dream safari into macabre madness that J. Ambrose Sweigart compiled in volume one of Whispers and Shadows. Volume two finds Thomas Grey still in the woods, struggling with the realization that his dreams are his reality - and yours - while also trying to understand the true nature of the universe, and racing to stop a mysterious force from altering all existence forever.