Category: Thriller

“The Rage” is a novel by Richard Bachman, which is actually a pseudonym used by Stephen King. It was first published in 1977 under the title “Getting It On” but was later republished as “The Rage” in 1985. The novel follows the story of Charlie Decker, a high school student who, after being suspended for…

It is 1896. The city is New York. Journalist John Schuyler Moore is brought by his companion Dr. Laszlo Kreizler — a clinician, or “alienist” — to see the horrendously damaged body of a juvenile kid deserted on the incomplete Williamsburg Scaffold. From that point the two set out on a progressive exertion in criminal…