rekt (eBook)

Alex Gonzalez (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
368 Seiten
Erewhon Books (Verlag)
9781645661634 (ISBN)

Infos

A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man's algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that's nearly here. ';A visionary book that is at once pensive, rollicking, and truly, bone-deep unsettling. Alex Gonzalezsrektis an absolute stunner.' Paul Tremblay,New York Timesbestselling author ofHorror MovieandA Head Full of Ghosts > be me, 26 > about to end it all > feels good, man Once, Sammy Dominguez thought he knew how the world worked. The ugly things in his headhis uncle's pathetic death, his parents' mistrust, the twisted horrors he writes for the Internetdidn't matter, because he and his girl, Ellery, were on track for the good life in this messed-up world. Then a car accident changed everything. Spiraling with grief and guilt, Sammy scrambles for distraction. He finds it in shock-value videos of gore and violence that terrified him as a child. When someone messages him a dark web link to footage of Ellery dying, he watchesfirst the car crash that killed her, then hundreds of other deaths, even for people still alive. Accidents. Diseases. Suicides. Murders. The host site, chinsky, is sadistic, vicious, impossible. It even seems to read his mind, manipulate his searches. But is chinsky even real? And who is Haruspx, the web handle who led him into this virtual nightmare? As Sammy watches compulsively, the darkness in his mind blooms, driving him down a twisted path to find the roots of chinsky, even if he must become a nightmare himself

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.3.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror ► Horror
• Schlagworte: 4-chan horror • Abuse • AI • AI horror • AI thriller • alcoholism • Artificial Intelligence • BIPOC • Black Mirror • books like chuck palahniuk • books likeChuck Palahnuik • books like fight club • books like true crime • books set in florida • books set in Tallahassee • bro culture • Childhood Trauma • consent culture • creepypastas • Cuban-American • Cyberpunk • dark Web • dystopian • experimental fiction • family trauma • Florida State University • Hispanic writers • Horror • Internet addiction • Internet culture • Latino writers • Latinx-American • literary fiction • Masculinity • meme culture • men of color writers • men of colorwriters • millennial fiction • Mr. Robot • near-future science fiction • neuromancer • psychological horror • Psychological thriller • Quentin Tarantino • QuentinTarantino • Radicalization • reddit culture • redditculture • science fiction thriller • shock horror • snuff video horror • Social Media • social thriller • Splatterpunk • Technothriller • Toxic Masculinity
• ISBN-13: 9781645661634 / 9781645661634