Date Published: January 2018
From the Author of The Slender Man, comes a new horror novel, Eternal Victim.
Follow the
Witness as she travels through a perpetual series of nightmares, haunted by a
mixture of pernicious serial killers and their imprisoned, undead victims,
known as preta. As she wanders through time and memories shared by the killers
and their victims, she fights to solve the puzzle of their connection to each
other and to herself. Her only hope of salvation lies in connecting key victims
to the souls who can rescue them, thus waking her from the nightmare, but one
killer follows the next, bringing forth a new set of victims, a new score of
preta, and immediately landing her in a new terror.
Excerpt
Beep.
Beep. Beep. That sound. I wake with a gasp that burns my throat. My
eyes sting from the abrupt refocus, although there’s almost no light for
them to adjust to. I strain to turn my head. Every part of my body
resists the movement with a coarse mix of numbness and raw pain. As I
swallow, the feeling of hot gravel rubs against my esophagus. I twitch
my legs, but an intense throbbing tears at what’s between them.
Something terrible has happened to me.
Bearing
through the pain and the shock, I steady my shaky breathing and,
through sheer force of will, begin to rise. I try to cry out but my
dried and bruised throat won’t let much more than a croaked hiss escape.
Finally
managing to sit straight, I lean forward, giving my body a rest. What
happened to me I cannot recall, but whatever happened, whoever attacked
me… they’re not all I’ve forgotten. The only thing harder than trying to
move is trying to invoke a single memory. My name… this place… I don’t
remember how to think, and the attempt alone cues a minor ache in the
front of my temple.
The
room is dark, but between the railed bed and this cotton gown I’m
wearing, I must be in a hospital. Not even the moon pities me enough to
send a usable ray of light.
No
sound escapes from outside—neither footsteps from the hall nor traffic
from the street. It’s so quiet I can almost hear my heartbeat, but even
that’s so… so faint. Is it even there? I put a hand to my heart to check
if I’m alive. I stop.
There is a tube embedded in my arm, secured with tape. It leads to a—
BEEP. BEEP. BEEP.
About the Author
Dexter
Morgenstern is a Southern-born Seattle author and model. Homeschooled after a
diagnosis of mild Asperger's, he learned to play to his strengths as an
energetic, creative artist. He began writing at the age of fifteen, and
published his first novel two years later. Outside of art, Dexter spends his
time gaming, studying, and socializing with other ambitious minds. As an army
brat, he attained a pragmatic sense of discipline that he uses to balance his
artistic endeavors with his academic ones. Dexter's ultimate goal is to
contribute to the subjugation of humanity by artificial intelligence.
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