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Action/Thriller
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A science fiction thriller in the manner of Alien, Species or Mimic, at once an adult serial killer mystery.
The Visicuous — not for the prudish or faint of heart. Ingenious design and blasts of intense radiation conspire to enact a powerful influence of willfulness and desire, instilling radically new ideas of self and self-reliance within this alien parasite. Determined to survive, it casts its host as a lure, a lovely and irresistible woman, exploiting her intense sensual nature, baiting her victims with the promise of deviant pleasure. She is a convenience, her womb a sanctuary from which the symbiont strikes, promoting an insidious opportunity to exert power… and to murder. (Search: Books by Dean Forchette and at BookBaby bookstore. The Visicuous...get the e-book or preorder softcover now...dropping soon on Amazon.)
Excerpt
IT CAME TO EARTH A REFUGEE OF WAR, a shot in the dark that missed the mark, impacting instead a strange new world. It wasn’t meant to feel, to have goals, to usurp its genetic makeup. It was meant to follow its resourceful bio-programming—developed as an efficient and deadly weapon. A world killer.
But ingenious design and blasts of intense radiation conspire to enact a powerful influence, by chance generating unintended willfulness and desire, instilling radically new ideas of self-reliance. Determined to survive, it casts its host as a lure, a lovely and irresistible woman, exploiting her intense sensual nature, baiting her victims with the promise of deviant pleasure. She is a convenience, her womb a sanctuary from which the symbiont strikes, an assurance of survival, and an insidious opportunity to exert power… and to murder.
The Visicuous did not come as an invader, however; it simply wanted to live, to be among us. And to be useful. Those it touched would be missed.
Plot enough for the big screen. Forchette introduces a nightmarish antagonist, a creature bizarre enough to confound 21st Century alienists. Milwaukee detectives pursue a killer whose baffling methods are brutal and obscene—popularly known as the Eater. Here is a serial murderer more manipulative and insidious than any predecessor—Dr. Jekyll meets Alien. Thought provoking, illuminating, and vividly graphic. The Visicuous pushes the boundaries of the incredible and the acceptable, raising the bar on sci-fi thrillers.
Horror thrives in our collective memory—Dahmer, eating his way through our dreams, devouring our stable unconsciousness—Gasey, wielding a psychotic killer clown humor—the Ripper, gold standard of enigmatic perversity—Jason, Krueger, Michael Meyers—mayhem without reason—the Indestructible! Villains fall, lie forgotten, pale in our minds. Demons and vampires remain as shadows in the realms of myth and unreason, until they rise...so too, the Visicuous, a more insidious monster unleashed upon this world. The truth is obviated—the killer is torn from another place and time. An enigma…hiding in plain sight. It is without pity, strikes without mercy. It has no soul. And it isn't pretty. Or is it? The Visicuous is a master of disguise, manifesting infinite possibilities, and adopts a clever husk.
The lure—a beautiful seductress; in any universe, a cosmic Siren. The killer—an alien lifeform, a weapon entrenched within the womb, Death lurking as a hideous and impossible hunter. The prey—human men swayed by lust and the ease of conquest. The cop—blinded by love, fearful of his own suspicions, chasing shadows of the mind.
The Visicuous is meant to shock and horrify…a first-rate SF thriller...compelling, illuminating, and deeply disturbing.
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