Alex’s Escape
Fourteen-year-old psychopath Alex Packard has his own house, a shadow version of his parents’ house that they helped him build. He takes people there to kill them in the most entertaining ways he can imagine. After murdering his parents, he moves to Los Angeles to live with his married gay uncles, Bruce and Aaron. Alex bonds with his uncles immediately, coming out as gay, too. His bond with Aaron, a documentary filmmaker, tightens as he shares in Aaron’s passion for the camera, and he toys with both uncles, trying to ignite other passions. Meanwhile, he starts bringing beautiful boys and girls from school back to his house, staging more and more elaborate and violent scenarios with them to entertain himself as well as them… but his uncles have suspicions, and Alex leaves clues… and Alex might not understand the enormity of the forces that allow him to slaughter innocents in a shadow world.
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“Alex’s Escape is pitch-black coming-of-age nastiness that delights in every transgression a hardcore horror fan could dream… and several more besides!” —Ryan Harding, Splatterpunk Award-winning author of Transcendental Mutilation and Genital Grinder
“A queer phantasmagoria of torturous horror, taboo sex, and supernatural cruelty. Alex’s Escape penetrates deep — in all manner of ways.” —Jonathan Butcher, author of What Good Girls Do and co-author of Motel Styx
“The most twisted and disturbing book I’ve ever read, in the vein of Barker’s best.” —David-Jack Fletcher, award-winning author of Raven’s Creek
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