A History of Fear by Luke Dumas

Grayson Hale是苏格兰最臭名昭著的杀人犯，他有一个不同的名字：魔鬼的代言人。这位25岁的美国研究生在承认屠杀他的同学利亚姆-斯图尔特时立即声名鹊起，他声称是魔鬼让他这么做的。

当黑尔被发现吊死在牢房里时，警官发现了一份手写的手稿，该手稿有望回答困扰全国多年的问题：黑尔是个疯子，还是他一直在说实话？

令人不安的是，黑尔并不符合杀手的标准。这部小说以第一人称叙述为中心，揭示了一个尖刻的年轻无神论者，刚进入爱丁堡大学学习，以继承他最近去世的父亲的遗产。由于需要现金，他接受了一份为一个黑暗的陌生人撰写神秘书籍的工作，但当这个项目开始重新唤起他的撒旦恐惧症时，他心存疑虑，这种罕见的状况使他生活在恐惧之中，害怕魔鬼在追杀他。当他努力将事实与恐惧分开时，格雷森的世界被颠覆了，因为事件迫使他面对自己日益增长的怀疑，即他在为他一直害怕的人工作，而这本书仅仅是他们合作的开始。

本书是对人类心理黑暗的一次推动，将令人恐惧的气氛和令人心悸的故事结合起来。

Grayson Hale, the most infamous murderer in Scotland, is better known by a different name: the Devil’s Advocate. The twenty-five-year-old American grad student rose to instant notoriety when he confessed to the slaughter of his classmate Liam Stewart, claiming the Devil made him do it.

When Hale is found hanged in his prison cell, officers uncover a handwritten manuscript that promises to answer the question that’s haunted the nation for years: was Hale a lunatic, or had he been telling the truth all along?

Unnervingly, Hale doesn’t fit the bill of a killer. The first-person narrative that centers this novel reveals an acerbic young atheist, newly enrolled at the University of Edinburgh to carry on the legacy of his recently deceased father. In need of cash, he takes a job ghostwriting a mysterious book for a dark stranger, but has misgivings when the project begins to reawaken his satanophobia, a rare condition that causes him to live in terror that the Devil is after him. As he struggles to disentangle fact from fear, Grayson’s world is turned upside-down after events force him to confront his growing suspicion that he’s working for the one he has feared all this time—and that the book is only the beginning of their partnership.​​

A History of Fear is a propulsive foray into the darkness of the human psyche, marrying dread-inducing atmosphere and heart-palpitating storytelling.

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