THE NATURE OF THE BEAST…
THE “beast” plays a prominent roll in much of humanity’s literature, religious tomes, contemporary conspiracy theories and social media. Oxford Languages (defines “beast” as (1) an animal, especially a large or dangerous four-footed one; and/or (2)a domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
In the Christian book of Revelation, two beasts are described: The first comes “out of the sea” and is given authority and power by “the dragon” (alt. Satan, the Devil, Lucifer); the second comes “out of the earth” and directs all peoples of the earth to worship the first, which had seven heads and ten horns, and upon the horns ten crowns, and upon the heads the name of blasphemy. It looked like a leopard, with the feet of a bear, and a mouth like a lion. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bea...].
The dragon, “evil incarnate,” is further inspired by the Enochian books, as expressed/practiced by Jesus, with minor variations. Some Christians consider the devil to be a fallen angel who, along with one-third of the angelic host (the demons), rebelled against God and has consequently been condemned to the Lake of Fire. His typically assumed to be male and hating all of God’s creation, opposing God, spreading lies and wreaking havoc on souls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil).
Philip José Farmer presented a more contemporary spin on the “beast” in his IMAGE OF THE BEAST book series in which, “Private dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being hideously murdered. His pursuit of the killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality, as he becomes entangled with sex-starved she-ghosts, libidinous snake-women, a filthy human sow, and a she-creature who gives birth to an ectoplasmic simulacrum of Satanic child-killer Gilles de Rais” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563331667).
However, I took a very different spin on the “beast” in my Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor: Here, the beast is ourselves. NewAmerica, a shadow of the former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place of unbridled hedonism. The idea of an entire solar system of 100+ billion hedonistic human-beasts is quite a bit more interesting (and disturbing) to me than a single, elusive, erotic, sadistic, destructive force. The result is an infinitely greater number of possibilities of what such a “solar system world” would be like, and it’s within this complex vortex that my three young firebrands must “find themselves” and live.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
In the Christian book of Revelation, two beasts are described: The first comes “out of the sea” and is given authority and power by “the dragon” (alt. Satan, the Devil, Lucifer); the second comes “out of the earth” and directs all peoples of the earth to worship the first, which had seven heads and ten horns, and upon the horns ten crowns, and upon the heads the name of blasphemy. It looked like a leopard, with the feet of a bear, and a mouth like a lion. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bea...].
The dragon, “evil incarnate,” is further inspired by the Enochian books, as expressed/practiced by Jesus, with minor variations. Some Christians consider the devil to be a fallen angel who, along with one-third of the angelic host (the demons), rebelled against God and has consequently been condemned to the Lake of Fire. His typically assumed to be male and hating all of God’s creation, opposing God, spreading lies and wreaking havoc on souls (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil).
Philip José Farmer presented a more contemporary spin on the “beast” in his IMAGE OF THE BEAST book series in which, “Private dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being hideously murdered. His pursuit of the killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality, as he becomes entangled with sex-starved she-ghosts, libidinous snake-women, a filthy human sow, and a she-creature who gives birth to an ectoplasmic simulacrum of Satanic child-killer Gilles de Rais” (https://www.amazon.com/dp/1563331667).
However, I took a very different spin on the “beast” in my Amazon genre bestseller, THE EDGE OF MADNESS (Aignos 2020) by Raymond Gaynor: Here, the beast is ourselves. NewAmerica, a shadow of the former United States of America, provides a challenging and dangerous future place of unbridled hedonism. The idea of an entire solar system of 100+ billion hedonistic human-beasts is quite a bit more interesting (and disturbing) to me than a single, elusive, erotic, sadistic, destructive force. The result is an infinitely greater number of possibilities of what such a “solar system world” would be like, and it’s within this complex vortex that my three young firebrands must “find themselves” and live.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0999693859
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