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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780741440693
ISBN number: 0741440695
Label: Infinity Publishing
Manufacturer: Infinity Publishing
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 155
Printing Date: July 27, 2007
Publishing house: Infinity Publishing
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Studio: Infinity Publishing
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You are a man wronged, seeking revenge.
But how is revenge possible when you live within the body of the man who wronged you, the man you want to kill?
Maybe you destroy his soul.
The Jekyll and Hyde Syndrome is a tale which owes as much to Poe and Lovecraft as to Stevenson. It is a book which will certainly please readers of macabre and grisly tales.
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I read this right after reading Clive Barker's "Mister B Gone" and found Carraher's book to be more a horror novel than Barker's (which is kind of charming, actually). In Carraher's book, the time is many years in the future in America. The U.S. Constitution is gone as is the Republic, replaced by the New Order. In a small out-of-the-way town we learn that a medical man has a nightly "duty" to a patient which entails him shackling the patient to his bed each night so the man cannot leave the room. The doctor is becoming convinced that the man is "truly possessed".
Then we flash back to a prison and a man unfairly placed in a cell. This is a prison which harkens back to those we read about in the Count of Monte Christo or in Poe's "The Pit and the Pendulum" stories, a terrible place. But the man survives and is freed, and being freed, immediately seeks to avenge himself for being wrongfully imprisoned.
Well, that's about all I say without spoiling the tale for those who would read it. I can say that there is more than one sudden "twist" which surprised me and that the ultimate manner of revenge taken struck me as quite horrific.
I suppose I can say that the title refers to the future medical practice of injecting human DNA into someone to cure a disease and having the unusual occurrence of that foreign DNA reassembling the consciousness of the person from whom it was taken. It becomes the equivalent of injecting one human being into the body of another.
But, unlike the original "Jekyll and Hyde" evil doesn't lose in this novella.
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