Deus-X

by Citro, Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9781584653394
• ISBN10: 1584653396
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-09-01
• Publisher: Univ Pr of New England

Summary

Named one of the "113 Best Books of Modern Horror" by critic Stanley Wiater, Deus-X offers a potent combination of mystery, psychological horror, and spiritual terror. Two seemingly unrelated events set in motion a complex plot: in a secret government installation in California, a political prisoner is grotesquely executed; while on the East Coast, an elderly Vermont farmer vanishes, the victim of an otherwordly abduction. Three amateur investigators with divergent world views--a psychologist, a physicist, and a priest--join forces to discover the relationship between these two events. Stalked by a murderous psychopath intent on stopping them, they encounter UFOs, inexplicable religious phenomena, multiple personalities, and overwhelming psychic violence. They are drawn inexorably forward through the gothic halls of a Canadian hospital for elderly and demented priests to the locked chambers of a covert American repository for space-age weaponry, where they uncover a sinister application of computer technology.

Author Biography

JOSEPH A. CITRO is the author of four previous novels of the occult and of several collections of New England legends and ghost stories. His most recent book, Curious New England (with Diane Foulds, UPNE, 2003) is a guide to off-beat and eccentric New England locales and attractions. He is a regular commentator on Public Radio.

Table of Contents

Part One: In the Beginning	11	(16)
1. Tribulation
2. Rapture
Part Two: The Next Year	27	(116)
3. Mr. Splitfoot
4. The Ancient Priest
5. The Widening Gyre
6. The Secret Birthday Wish
7. Pig on a Spit
8. The Foolish Fates
9. The Crouching Man
10. Crawling Things
11. Strange Awakenings
12. Blue Monday
13. Foul Spirits
14. Ghosts
15. Hand
16. A Coming of Serpents
17. Invaders
Part Three: Revelations	143	(104)
18. Earl King
19. Time to Kill
20. The Acolyte
21. Necessary Evil
Part Four: Devil's Town	247	(42)
22. Shepards of the Light
Part Five: Armageddon	289	(98)
23. The Change That Is Coming
24. The Name of the Father
Author's Note	387