Bit harsh re: clickbaiting etc.

Moby Dick is overrated.

I would agree that Apt Pupil is a highly disturbing fucked up story - which covers a number of themes. But is it honestly a great piece of horror? No. King relies far too much on the shock element, which I’m fine with this - sometimes I want to be grossed our. Todd’s wet dream as I have alluded already was pretty awkward - but there is some relatablity, admittedly I have never to my knowledge had one while fantasying about the holocaust it did bring home the memories of my first time - the confusion of what I had dreamt and waking up feeling sticky and not fully realising what it was resurfaced those emotions.

As for the depiction of madness, yes the graphic nature takes some beating but it’s weak on psychology. If you want to explore the slide to madness I urge you to read either the The Brothers Karamazov or Crime and Punishment.

I’ve read better horror from a cereal packet. If King is your idea of heavy reading I would suggest that you expand your horizons…

(and for the record the post was largely tongue in cheek).

omg - I have just got to scene where Schroeder is unable to climax with Mina (!)

(this is intense)

Despite my tenancy to see such things - I’ve only just noticed the resemblance (!)

I literally can’t put it down. Psychomech is the first of three books which sees Garrison enter further into this strange, trippy world of physical and mental transformations.

Lamentable but copyright is a critical mechanism for protecting the rights of creators.