But when the pills finally run out that s when the real show begins.įor 13 year old Ronnie Day, life is full of problems: Mom and Dad have separated, his brother Tim is a constant pest, Melanie Ward either loves him or hates him, and Jesus Christ won’t stay in his heart. It s easy enough for the good doctor to lure the survivors back to the remote Monkey House, where the original trials took place. They will do anything necessary to keep the pills coming and to stave off the creeping phobias, intense sexual impulses, and all consuming madness that lurk on the edges of their minds. All he has to do is recall his five surviving ‘volunteers,’ whose addiction to a mysterious drug has left them largely at his disposal.

senator, are willing to back Briggs s continued research. But now several interested parties, including a major pharmaceutical company and an ambitious U.S. Sebastian Briggs s clinical drug trial for a cutting edge fear response drug went horribly wrong or did it? It s true that one trial participant died and five others were left with no memory of what happened to them. When Roland Doyle wakes up in an unfamiliar motel room with a strange man’s wallet in his pocket and a woman s dead body in the bathroom, he fears the worst and that s before he finds the vial of pills labeled ‘take one every 4 hrs or else.’ Or else what? Ten years ago, Dr. Senator Daniel Burchfield of plotting to gain control of the drug for his own purposes, a power play that is sure to result in countless casualties unless she and three Monkey House survivors can outwit the shadowy figures behind the conspiracy if they don t lose their own sanity first. Morgan s research into the drug leads her to suspect presidential candidate and U.

As a result, he is plagued by unpredictable bouts of rage and paranoia. Alexis Morgan knows first hand the horrors of the sad*istic experiment: her husband, Mark, was one its victims. For while the unwitting human guinea pigs are still alive, the experimental drugs to which they were subjected continue to wreak havoc on their emotional stability. The story picks up one year after the notorious Monkey House trials, from which the tiny handful of survivors have scattered in the wind. Chronic Fear is the second installment of Scott Nicholson’s chilling Fear series, which began with the harrowing Liquid Fear.

The Farm by Scott Nicholson