hallucinations and illusions

Ever since a car accident killed her father and gave her a severe concussion, high school junior Lisa has been plagued by nightmares and hallucinations, but when she accepts a babysitting job in hopes it will banish the disturbing images, she faces new terror as she begins to question exactly who--or what--she is babysitting.

Two horror stories include "Don't Stay Up Late," where Lisa accepts a babysitting job to keep away the nightmares and hallucinations that plague her following a serious car accident.

Dane grieves when Mandy, his long-time partner in a magic act, is thought to have died in a car crash; meanwhile, Mandy awakens in the present as her nineteen-year-old self and escapes a mental ward with her new ability to pass invisibly through time and space. Dane finds the young Mandy performing in a coffee shop, and unaware of her true identity, begins to mentor her as an individual who knows the truth secretly watches.

Erik is a miracle worker, who takes an oath of silence, gives up friends, and becomes a giant. Thorn hears the voices of Guardians, Sawmen, and even the Architect, simultaneously needing and fighting what the voices command. Erik and Thorn are on a collision course, and their fates are bound darkly together.

"Taking medication to cope with the death of her mother, Whitney Connolly discovers she is experiencing a strange side effect of the medication--musical hallucinations--that help her escape her family problems"--OCLC.

Psychic Deacon Silvey must turn to a supernatural being for help when his wife, just days away from giving birth to their first child, is kidnapped by a serial killer who plans to offer the baby as a sacrifice in order to join a society of monsters.

A budding teen journalist and her enigmatic science teacher separately work to locate and infiltrate a secret society that threatens their elite prep school with a shady tragedy from the past, an event that challenges the student's allegiances.

Well-known authors create seventeen literary illusions for this collection conceived by David Copperfield.

Danielle, the lead singer for a popular band, turns to her psychiatrist when the hallucinations she has suffered from since her parents' deaths three years ago become increasingly violent.

An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations; traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.