The M.D.: A Horror Story

The M.D.: A Horror Story | Techniques

One of the outstanding characteristics of The M.D. is its prose style, which is fluid, graceful, even seductive:

He did not finish his threat, for he had taken the caduceus into his bleeding hand and at once a tremor passed through his body, like a wind moving through him, an electric wind that tore at the tissues of his body, twisting and reordering atom and molecule, shattering the crystal lattices of the DNA as a greater wind might shatter the windows of a house, and ever, as it moved through the lymph and in the muscles and along the veins and arteries, gathering...

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