Keyes never knew that before—that his psyche and physiological reactions weren’t unique. He’d had the same epiphany, Keyes told them, with Dark Dreams and, though it was fiction, Dean Koontz’s Intensity. Told from the alternating viewpoints of a serial killer and his abducted victim, Koontz’s novel crystallized Keyes’s thoughts and urges: the love of pain, self-inflicted and imposed; the ultimate pointlessness of human existence; the disbelief in God or any other higher being; the power and transcendence that only taking, torturing, and killing could provide. This made him feel, ironically,
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