Rocking and rolling starts to a pair of unorthodox horror stories for spooky season

When you hear the word ‘horror stories,’ something like slashers, psychological horror, the paranormal, or a combo comes to mind. For libertarians, horror almost always comes in a psychological sense, and when we read some literature on the subject, oh, it’s one that will do more than just keep you up at night. 

What if I told you one courageous author recently wrote a book on the subject and one that is so terrifying, it puts Nineteen Eighty-Four to shame? I’m talking, of course, about PsyWar: Enforcing the New World Order by Dr.s Robert and Jill Malone. 

PsyWar is a real-life horror work that’s perfect for spooky season

While I’m not that far into the work, it’s been a good way to make an hour or so fly by rather quickly, given the lengths those you’ve been taught to trust will go to wage, well, a psywar against you. To the point that your thoughts aren’t even your own and that they’re all a product of what you see, hear, and feel on an emotional level. 

If you’ve read Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, you’ll know a thing or two about how this works. Malone talks about entities like the Five Eyes, the 77th Brigade, and the tactics they use to control thought and opinion. Yeah, it’s dystopian fiction come to life. 

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I’ll leave my full review on PsyWar on one of my non-traditional posting days, like a Tuesday, Thursday, or Saturday, since I tend to leave Monday as a time to review fiction books. But since this week and the last have been outliers, I’m simply giving an update of what I’m up to instead. Anyway, speaking of fiction…

Have you ever received a mysterious text…?

And someone happens to just follow you around, whether you’re at school, on the road, or even at home? What if this mysterious entity just hid in the shadows, standing far back enough to where you couldn’t catch its face?

Yeah, this is the basis of The Text by Julane Fisher - I think I’ve finally gotten the first name right. This is one of my chosen ‘libertarian onslaught works’ and funnily enough, I’ve had nightmares about this. Like, I’ve either found myself in some mysterious cabin out in the middle of nowhere with people hunting me down, or I’m on the run from a group of people, jumping from home to home, and I have no idea why. 

Hey, at least those are just intense, vivid dreams that end up with me waking up with an adrenaline rush. Unfortunately for our main character, Rami, this isn’t the case. 

The current vibes…

When I was in the sixth grade about a thousand years ago, or maybe it was seventh grade about nine hundred ninety-nine years ago, I read a book (series?) called Chasing the Falconers. And yeah, it’s something I’ll probably review here since it could fit the libertarian concept, even if I’ll need to reread the series since the only memory of the plot I have is that someone was after the co-protagonists. 

Anyway, it’s the vibe I’m getting with The Text, and to be frank, if I didn’t have to get up at 3:00 AM this morning and 2:30 AM tomorrow, I’d have no problem staying up all night and reading it. 

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So, once everything calms down in the first of November, I’ll have a full review of PsyWar and The Text, and maybe some insights on Chasing the Falconers. In all, I can’t freaking wait.