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Torched!
First, you feel uncomfortably hot. But it's no use turning up the air conditioning or reaching for a long, cool drink. Whatever you do, the temperature inside you keeps rising. And rising. Soon you're in agony beyond your wildest nightmares as your whole body is engulfed in searing, unbearable heat. You go mad briefly with the pain.
Then, with luck, you black out. If your luck holds, you're dead soon after. Very dead. But your involuntary cremation continues. Your blood boils in your veins for a few seconds—before it bursts them. As your tortured corpse dries out from the horror-heat inside it, your skin blisters, pops, bursts—and then flares into scorching flame fuelled by your own melding body-fat. Clouds of choking, greasy smoke join the searing blaze consuming what's left of you.
You have become your own funeral pyre... Torched! is a devastating horror novel that goes beyond anything you've read before. Here is terror that grips you with fierce fingers of fire—and won't let go...
Then, with luck, you black out. If your luck holds, you're dead soon after. Very dead. But your involuntary cremation continues. Your blood boils in your veins for a few seconds—before it bursts them. As your tortured corpse dries out from the horror-heat inside it, your skin blisters, pops, bursts—and then flares into scorching flame fuelled by your own melding body-fat. Clouds of choking, greasy smoke join the searing blaze consuming what's left of you.
You have become your own funeral pyre... Torched! is a devastating horror novel that goes beyond anything you've read before. Here is terror that grips you with fierce fingers of fire—and won't let go...
- GenresHorror
223 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1985
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About the author
James Blackstone
2 booksPseudonym of
John Brosnan
John Raymond Brosnan was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works based around the fantasy and science fiction genres. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, and died in South Harrow, London, from acute pancreatitis. He sometimes published under the pseudonyms Harry Adam Knight, Simon Ian Childer (both sometimes used together with Leroy Kettle), James Blackstone (used together with John Baxter), and John Raymond. Three not very successful movies were based on his novels–Beyond Bedlam (aka Nightscare), Proteus (based on Slimer), and Carnosaur. In addition to science fiction, he also wrote a number of books about cinema and was a regular columnist with the popular UK magazine Starburst.
John Raymond Brosnan was an Australian writer of both fiction and non-fiction works based around the fantasy and science fiction genres. He was born in Perth, Western Australia, and died in South Harrow, London, from acute pancreatitis. He sometimes published under the pseudonyms Harry Adam Knight, Simon Ian Childer (both sometimes used together with Leroy Kettle), James Blackstone (used together with John Baxter), and John Raymond. Three not very successful movies were based on his novels–Beyond Bedlam (aka Nightscare), Proteus (based on Slimer), and Carnosaur. In addition to science fiction, he also wrote a number of books about cinema and was a regular columnist with the popular UK magazine Starburst.
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December 9, 2022
Another—if little-known—pseudonymous John Brosnan paperback nasty, strong in its characterisation and gleeful descriptions, but somehow almost genteel and mainstream (more BBC than ITV), far more concerned with mystery, authenticity, and plotting, and somewhat derailed by a late switch around that comes as some surprise, but diminishes the final scenes.
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