Brian Kirk Libri

Nominated for a Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. "A stark and frightening novel. Horror fans should definitely seek this one out." – Booklist Some doctors are sicker than their patients. When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum s criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital s most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free. FLAME TREE PRESS is the new fiction imprint of Flame Tree Publishing. Launched in 2018 the list brings together brilliant new authors and the more established; the award winners, and exciting, original voices.

When a troubled psychiatrist loses funding to perform clinical trials on an experimental cure for schizophrenia, he begins testing it on his asylum's criminally insane, triggering a series of side effects that opens the mind of his hospital's most dangerous patient, setting his inner demons free.

Jesse Wheeler disappeared a couple of years ago, just after playing a reunion gig with his band, The Rising Dead. Rumor has it he had just finished reading a book like the one you're holding now. He's not the only one, either. Supposedly there's a whole bunch of people who've disappeared. But that's probably just a folktale, wouldn't you say?

Ein mysteriöses Buch, das Leser verfolgt, wird zum Albtraum für Jesse Wheeler, einen ehemaligen Metal-Gitarristen. Nach einem Konzert geschehen bizarre Ereignisse, die ihn an seinem Verstand zweifeln lassen und seine dunkelsten Geheimnisse ans Licht bringen. Mit dem Lesen des Buches wird auch der Leser Teil dieser schrecklichen Geschichte.