The Sound Of Fear follows a pathway of the unthinkable. Is life as we know it truly a myth of hopeful expectation? The book, spread over a decade of time, entrances you with the love of a couple and their love of family, entwines you around the mysteries of the subconscious mind, enthralls you with depths of fear ignited by often heart-rendering episodes and embraces your simple need for pulling the bed covers over your eyes! Weak, strong, dirty, and heroic characters help you relate to human frailties. Inconceivable terror strikes you at times to find your core’s fear triggers. Take a deep breath as necessary! The simple fact is fear manifests deeply in all humans. Some hide the emotion with intrinsic capabilities of denial. Others blink and run on impulse! The storyline drifts around an alien tone. Subtle at times, you feel compelled to understand any life-form’s survival needs. But, the brutality of reality puts you back on the “home Team”, routing for the survival of the fittest! The Sound Of Fear experience finds you reminiscing those times when you looked into the wind-blown bushes at dusk to see the imaginary shadows or when you thought twice about going into the dark open waters of that expansive pond, lake or ocean. The book’s simple text finds you remembering the possibilities of how and why people cold be placed in situations just like one’s you’d heard about or had experienced. Within the chapters, you will relate to the characters’ sometimes reckless, sometimes concise, sometimes giddy, sometimes compassionate decisions or emotions. The book is purposefully designed to make you feel like you know what’s going to happen next…it at least gives you that “feeling” of control…or does it? Let your fear be your guide!

マイケル・アンソニー・チロが描くのは、単なるホラーの枠を超えた、人間の深層心理に潜む根源的な「恐怖」の解剖学です。平穏な家族愛という光の裏側に、十年の歳月をかけて忍び寄る不可解な闇。その鮮烈な対比が、読者の無意識に眠る「未知への畏怖」を容赦なく揺さぶります。弱さと気高さ、卑俗さと英雄的精神を併せ持つ登場人物たちの描写は、まさに人間性の縮図と言えるでしょう。 本作の真髄は、夕暮れの茂みや底知れぬ水面を見た時に誰もが感じる「原始的なざわつき」を、極限の生存競争へと昇華させた点にあります。シンプルな文体でありながら、読者の予測を巧みに裏切り、精神的な主導権を奪い去る筆致は圧巻の一言です。ページをめくるごとに自分自身の恐怖の引き金が引かれる、この濃密で暴力的なまでの没入体験を、ぜひその身で味わってください。