When Jake, a shy fourth grader, starts a fire in the woods behind his school that gets away from him, he's punished and forgiven. But his
life is never the same. Three years after the incident, the dreams
begin. Dreams of flames and a strange creature Jake calls The Melting
Man. Waiting and watching with an insidious grin, it lures him deeper
and deeper into his darkest fears, and closer to an otherworld of fire
and torment.
And then, Jake begins to see The Melting Man wherever he goes.
Come with me, Jake... Come and see...
As his dreams bleed into waking life, Jake realizes he's being
dragged toward a very real apocalypse, and that The Melting Man's powers are growing stronger. Asleep, awake, or trapped between the two, Jake
must fight to understand not only who and what The Melting Man is and
what the dreams mean, but how this creature and Jake's mysterious family legacy ties into a disturbing, violent and enigmatic film associated
with his father, a failed screenwriter.
But there may be no way to stop what has already begun... because this is a new nightmare... a new terror... a new Flesh...
THE NEW FLESH, the debut novel of horror, madness and suspense from Keith Deininger.
