Nyctophobia

A horror novel being written by gangstagnome. Currently somewhere in the middle of the first draft.

The story follows Felix Murray, a 17-year-old boy who has just moved to the small town of St. Helen, Michigan with his parents in order to escape the demands of city life. However, there has been a string of gruesome murders in town, starting shortly after the Murrays moved in. The police have nothing to go on, and some suspect the killer may not be human. To further complicate matters, Felix has been seeing what he can only assume is a hallucination of a dark form (seen almost exclusively at night) that he believes harbours him some ill will. Perhaps it should be mentioned that Felix suffers from an unknown mental condition similar to schizophrenia that causes him to hallucinate constantly. (The similarities are largely from Critical Research Failure on the part of the author and may be fixed if when the book reaches the revision stage.)