Monstrosity

Arriving on a lush tropical island to start her new job as a security officer for a mysterious clinic, Clare Prentiss is soon plagued by disturbing visions and twisted fantasies, leading her into a nightmarish realm of terror where hideous spawns of a horrible genetic mutation wait to destroy her. Original.

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Sexual obsessions running amok, a stagnant lake full of abominable horrors, and a secluded clinic with a secret wing that no one’s ever entered. These are just a few of the goings-on in this macabre tech-horror story in which veteran novelist Edward Lee takes the mad-scientist theme into shocking new territory. Security manager Clare Prentiss swears she’s being watched during her nightly rounds on a remote federal nature preserve. Meanwhile, local hoodlums disappear without a trace, and women are dragged into woods to be raped and discarded by some unspeakable thing. Indeed, something is stalking Clare. A man? A monster? Or something significantly worse? Creepy, erotic, and gory, MONSTROSITY delivers up the horrors at a break-neck pace and doesn’t stop until the final page.

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NOT YOUR ORDINARY LAKE. He suddenly stopped, hip-deep in the water. Something real big brushed against him. Don t panic, he thought. He stood stock-still, hands poised. Behind him, again, something big something six or eight feet long swam against him.I m gettin OUT of here-- He turned very slowly, so not to agitate the water, raised one foot to take the first step back to the shore, and--WHAP!The water surged. Foot-wide jaws hit him right in the crotch and clamped down. He fell over, screaming, splashing, reeling a frantic circle in the water as his predator reeled with him: an eel yes ten feet long and a foot in girth. The great jaws locked down harder; he was paralyzed in agony, incapable of responsive action, incapable of even heaving out one last scream before the creature s sheer weight and crude animal strength hauled him beneath the water, into-- Silence. Blackness. Terror.His brain impulses were still firing away, though all human reason was gone now. He would simply drown in this cold frenetic horror, with this thing gnawing on his groin. He would never fish again. He would never make love to Kari Ann again, and he had slapped his last high-five with his good friend Jory. Then, just as he would die A hand grabbed his collar and pulled him out of the water."Jory, thank God! Get this thing off me!"Eventually the eel let go, the gnawing gristly pain abated, and he heaved breaths in a nearly mindless relief. He d been saved! Jory had saved him!Back on shore he collapsed in exhaustion, looked up at Jory, and...It wasn t Jory. He wished he was back in the water again, with the eel, when he got a look at the face of the thing that had pulled him out.

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