When Ignatius Perrish wakes up after a night of hard drinking to find horns growing out of his head, he thinks he might be hallucinating. Ig soon realizes that the horns are real, and after some very strange encounters with his girlfriend and a doctor, he discovers that they give him a strange new power that compels people to tell him their most depraved thoughts and ask him whether they should act on them. He learns things about people close to him that upset him greatly and have him trying to figure out how to make it stop. Soon Ig grows to like his new powers, and realizes that he could use them to find the person who raped and murdered his girlfriend one year earlier, a crime that most people, including his parents, think he committed even though he was never charged.
Most people would not consider this book to be very scary when compared with many horror novels, but a definite feeling of unease
pervades throughout the book. Readers of
dark fantasy and those into dark psychological tales might enjoy this
book.
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