Soulmate

by Charles W. Runyon

Possessed. No man was safe from the evil creature that inhabited her mind.

Somehow it had entered her mind. Somehow it transformed her from an innocent eleven-year-old girl into a young, voluptuous woman. helpless and confused, she went from one man to the next, charming t hem, seducing them, and - without knowing how or why - killing them. Only later did she realize that the thing inside her mind was forcing her on a search for another like herself, a fellow-victim possessed by evil, a soulmate, a horrifying realistic tale of terror and suspense.

Genres: Horror

159 pages, Mass Market Paperback

First published March 1, 1974

About the author

US author of thrillers and some sf, who began publishing the latter with "First Man in a Satellite" for Super-Science Fiction in December 1958; sixteen further short sf/fantasy stories followed, chiefly for The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. His first sf novel Pig World (1971) depicts a Near-Future USA governed by a right-wing tyranny challenged by a vicious would-be demagogue. Soulmate (April 1970 F&SF; exp 1974) is a novel of possession (see Horror in SF), the victim being a young prostitute. I, Weapon (1974) features much violence and Sex involving Aliens. Runyon's sf tends to be action-filled, without extensive displacement or speculative content.
Runyon was one of several sf authors who ghosted paperback-original thrillers under the Ellery Queen byline.

Reviews

[Jesse · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent little '70s chiller that treats its potentially icky premise with a surprising amount of taste and restraint. Ends up feeling more like an early (incredibly '70s) version of Under the Skin.

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