Chandler is on trial for rape and murder in a world where such acts have become commonplace due to spontaneous, unexplained demonic “possessions.” His trial is deemed necessary, as the location where his acts were carried out was assumed to be immune to such possessions. Chandler’s trial ends with his exile and his being branded on the forehead. His experiences after the trial take him far from his home and put him on the trail of the source of these mysterious possessions.
First serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in …
Chandler is on trial for rape and murder in a world where such acts have become commonplace due to spontaneous, unexplained demonic “possessions.” His trial is deemed necessary, as the location where his acts were carried out was assumed to be immune to such possessions. Chandler’s trial ends with his exile and his being branded on the forehead. His experiences after the trial take him far from his home and put him on the trail of the source of these mysterious possessions.
First serialized in Galaxy Science Fiction in 1962, Frederik Pohl’s Plague of Pythons was later published as a novel in 1965, and then further revised and re-published under the title Demon in the Skull in 1984. This Standard Ebooks edition follows the first Galaxy serialization.
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Am 15. August 2024 von Standardebooks.org veröffentlicht.
I've never really thought of Frederik Pohl as a horror writer, and he isn't; but this comes really close.
A genuinely bleak view of a world plagued by possessions, with a real downer of an ending. The world is well thought-out, but you'd have to be in particular mood for this one.
There's a great deal of violence, but no gore (it's from 1965)
