Into Painfreak: A Journey of Decadence and Debauchery

Sometime between the years of A.D. 81 and A.D. 96, a persecuted Christian called John the Divine went to the Greek island of Patmos and wrote the BOOK OFFeaturing all new stories from some of the top authors in modern horror and includes an all new novella from Edward Lee!This book takes us deep, deep into the bowels of Painfreak, the traveling club that arises out of the dark and calls to those seeking the ultimate in pleasure and pain. If you wear the invisible mark of the bone on your hand then enter through the door. Many come to experience the ultimate in decadence and debauchery. And many get lost in a labyrinth filled with depraved sex, beautiful death, and wonderfully horrible sights. You've been given the mark, now step into the heart of…PAINFREAK.

Featuring the following stories:
“Introduction: Why Painfreak?” by Gerard Houarner
“Welcome to the Mercy Museum” by Charlee Jacob & Linda Addison
“Henry-Tobacconist” by John Urbancik
“The Night Sitter” by Edward Lee
“Painfreak” by Gerard Houarner
“The Thick of Chaos” by K. Trap Jones
“Exclusive” by Randy Chandler
“He Who Whispers the Dead Back to Life” by Lucy Taylor
“The Reverend’s Wife” by Tony Tremblay
“Ownership” by Wrath James White
“The Danse Macabre” by Monica O’Rourke
“The Rut” by Gerard Houarner
“Coping Mechanism” by Jeff Strand
“Pretty Me Up” by Michael T. Huyck, Jr.
“Sacred Meat” by Jeffrey Thomas
“Aikiko’s Blade” by Colleen Wanglund
“Divine Red” by Ryan Harding
“Bondage and Godhood” by Jordan Krall
“They Deal in Pain, But Pleasure Is Better” by Chesya Burke
“Sing Blue Silver” by John Everson
“Storming the Museum” by Charlee Jacob REVELATION. Theologians and scholars to this day do not know if this author was also St. John the Apostle, personal friend of Jesus Christ. However, detractors and the devout alike all agree that the product of “John’s” pen has demonstrated itself as one of the most mysterious books ever written.It is a book of wonders and horrors, of ciphers and hints, of truth and the most terrifying confusion. It is a book of riddles, symbols, and metaphors that presage the end of the world. It is a book endlessly discussed and bitterly argued over. However, in its illuminated pages lie one passage which seems wholly literal and free from the need for interpretation. It’s a pinpoint physical description of Heaven.

Some twenty-two hundred years later, the world is much different than is it today. It is a stultifying theocracy in which “God” (whichever name His followers choose to give him) is worshiped, praised, and hallowed via incomprehensible technologies and horrifying philosophies. And now, after a few more centuries of analysis, astrophysicists and monumental cryptographic computers have deciphered all of the clues that John the Divine infused into his Book: not just the appearance of Heaven but also its exact location.In the year A.D 2202, we send a ship to go there…