No Mercy In The Dark

Self-Published

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Description

"When monsters wear human faces, how do you tell the hunter from the hunted in a city stained with blood?"Briarcliff is a city rotting from the inside out, where killers roam the streets and bodies pile up like clockwork. But the city's streets are about to grow even darker. A new predator has emerged - The Flayer, a predator who kills with no reason, no mercy and no limit. As the Butcher, the city's infamous killer of criminals, hunts for this merciless flayer, he soon realizes that each horribly massacred body reveals the terrifying depths of the Flayer's depravity, sending chills even through the city's most hardened killer.Detectives Lewis and Thompson, Briarcliff’s best, are called in to stop the carnage. But this case cuts too close to home for Lewis, as he confronts his own demons while unraveling the chilling mystery of the Flayer. Meanwhile, A mute drifter named Felix walks into the heart of this blood-soaked nightmare, haunted by a darkness that clings to him like a shadow. Wherever he goes, bodies follow, leading the detectives—and the Butcher—to question whether he is the key to finding the Flayer or something far worse.As the body count rises, the hunters become the hunted. But in a city where shadows hide the most dangerous of beasts, there is no mercy, only darkness—and it will consume both predator and prey.

Information

Status
Completed
Year
2024
Author
SKNit3

Royal Road Stats

Rating
4.6/ 5.0
Followers
10
Views
4,384

Chapters(20 total)

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Community Reviews(2)

  • Evelyn AdelbergRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    This was a really good find from the Horror Writathon list.
    The pacing and prose of this story are really solid, and the author does an amazing job messing with our perspectives. This reads like episodes of a TV show, very visual, and with enough doubt sprinkled in between the lines to make us wonder if what the characters are seeings/hearing/living through is real, or some twisted thing only real in their heads.
    I think this story should have much more views than it does! (Maybe a more spread out release schedule could help with that?)
  • Mr_vissionlessRoyal Road
    ★★★★★ 5.0
    This is an interesting crime horror fiction. I like it that as we the viewer must wonder what happens next. The pacing is amazing and so are the characters. Reading this feels like I'm watching a horror movie at 3am, on edge on what happens in next chapter. Overall it is an amazing read and I truly enjoy it.