A struggling writer attempts suicide and wakes up in his "work in progress." That work is The Mercury Man, not even a quarter completed.
"The first time Micha Tudor went to Hadley Grove he'd thought the whole experience a fevered dream."
Each time he would return to reality, he finds more added to his story.
"A few weeks ago, the number count on The Mercury Man had stood at a paltry fifteen-thousand words. Barely enough framework or adequate structure to properly introduce his cast. Now the word count hovered at an astonishing forty-two-thousand."
As Micha spends more time in Hadley Grove he becomes more and more a part of the story. Mix in a serial killer known as The Mercury Man, a pair of demons, and their father, and you have the makings of a fine horror novel within a horror novel.
"Horror novels like The Mercury Man did not end with the hero cold-cocking his rival and running away with the girl...They ended with blood."
Matthew Tait has a distinctive voice and Schizoid is an ambitious novel worthy of H. P. Lovecraft.
Recommended.
Schizoid is available in both paperback and Kindle formats. If you subscribe to Kindle Unlimited you can read it at no additional charge. Also, if you are an Amazon Prime member you can read it for FREE using the Kindle Owners Lending Library.
From the author's bio - A vociferous horror columnist since 2005, Matthew Tait published his first collection of dark fiction in 2011. Since then, he has twice been nominated for the Australian Shadows Award. Described as writing 'the sort of horror Clive Barker must read on his days off' Matthew's fiction often treads the line between the familiar and the fantastic.
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