Mass Hysteria

Michael Patrick Hicks

Aug 2017 · High Fever Books

About this ebook

It came from space...

Something virulent. Something evil. Something new. And it is infecting the town of Falls Breath.

Carried to Earth in a freak meteor shower, an alien virus has infected the animals. Pets and wildlife have turned rabid, attacking without warning. Dogs and cats terrorize their owners, while deer and wolves from the neighboring woods hunt in packs, stalking and killing their human prey without mercy. 

As the town comes under siege, Lauren searches for her boyfriend, while her policeman father fights to restore some semblance of order against a threat unlike anything he has seen before. The Natural Order has been upended completely, and nowhere is safe.

...and it is spreading.

Soon, the city will find itself in the grips of mass hysteria.

To survive, humanity will have to fight tooth and nail.

This edition includes a bonus short story, Consumption! 

Ratings and reviews

I enjoy Michael's writing. I'm not a fan of this kind of horror. It's brutal, and in your face, and reminiscent of Stephen King's earlier works. I had a hard time reading this, but that's because of how well Michael writes. You're right there in it. The storyline is good, the characters are fleshed out . . . ? Hm maybe wrong word choice for this tale. Read it. But not with the lights off.

About the author

Michael Patrick Hicks is the author of the science fiction novels Convergence, an Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award 2013 Quarter-Finalist, and its sequel, Emergence, as well as several horror titles, including his most recent novel, Mass Hysteria.

His work has appeared in several anthologies, and he has written for the websites Graphic Novel Reporter and Audiobook Reviewer, in addition to work as a freelance journalist.

In between compulsively buying books and adding titles that he does not have time for to his Netflix queue, he is hard at work on his next story.