Suddenly Came the Night: A Transgressive Novella of Addiction, Love, and Disgust (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798290157764)

They say love is a warm, fuzzy feeling. The Cannibal taught me it's a worm. It comes from a damp, dark place, and when it crawls away, it leaves behind a wet, sticky trail of disgust. The disgust is the proof the love was real.

For a writer lost in a glacial numbness between feeling everything and nothing at all, this was the only truth that made sense. His life is a pre-recorded tape playing in a room of shadows, his achievements as hollow as his own reflection in a laptop camera. The only way to feel alive is to find a signal sharp enough to cut through the static.

That signal is Substance D.

What begins as a search for sensation becomes a hallucinatory descent into the geometry of pain, a deconstruction of the self. Guided by a homeless philosopher who eats human bones and fueled by a drug that sharpens every sensation into a blade, he records his own decay for a jury that will never convene. He revisits the ghosts of his past-the passionate, violent artist Aanya, whose love was an assault, and the steady, quiet Sofia, who became an anchor in his chaos, an interface for his broken soul.

But as the lines between memory, hallucination, and reality dissolve, as the narrative splinters into tapes, canvases, and manifestos, he is forced to confront the ultimate question: What better way is there to know you are alive than to know you are slowly dying?

A raw, unflinching journey into the darkest corners of the human psyche, Suddenly Came the Night is a work of potent, experimental, and transgressive fiction. For fans of Chuck Palahniuk's visceral satire, William S. Burroughs' cut-up chaos, and Bret Easton Ellis's cold-blooded critiques of the soul, this is a novel that will leave a permanent mark.

Scroll up and click 'Buy Now' to begin the final transmission.