Enter into Michael's world through the pages of his personal journal, where every diseased thought, disturbing dream, politically incorrect rant and sexually explicit murder highlights his journey from zero to psycho.
Review of THE VENUS COMPLEX by Paul Kane
‘After purposefully killing his wife in a car accident, art professor Michael Friday finds his perspective on things has become a little…warped. Via his personal journal, we’re allowed into his mind to slowly watch the disintegration of it, bearing witness to his unnerving sexual cravings and ideas about killing: intertwined with the paintings he loves so much. As Michael writes, he’s “turning into something dead”; but at the same time he wants to be somebody, not a nobody.
Using his diary to rant against the world in general – including everything from banks to popular culture, from national holidays like Christmas to politics – he reveals more about the big, gaping hole in his own life. But as the novel goes on the first person narrative tensely builds up, displaying his dark dreams and innermost thoughts; his way of filling that void and presenting his grisly “works of art” to the world. As intelligent and cultured as Hannibal, easily as disturbing as American Psycho and infinitely less ‘reassuring’ than Dexter, this is a sexually-charged real life horror story that will definitely stay with you.’
- Paul Kane is a Multiple British Fantasy Award-Nominee, and Author of Touching the Flame, The Lazarus Condition, Arrowhead, Peripheral Visions and Dead Time, adapted for Lionsgate/NBC’s Fear Itself by Steve ‘30 Days of Night’ Niles as New Year’s Day and directed by Darren Lynne Bousman (SAW II-IV & Repo: The Genetic Opera).
