Dead Space: Martyr by B.K. Evenson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
I haven’t played the game. But this is some top-notch horror. As somebody who’s struggled to write good hallucinations, I can tell you that it’s not easy. A lot of horror writing has bad hallucinations. This? Good ones. Super creepy, woven sensibly into the character’s psychology, not a huge amount of difference from the ‘real world’ to make it obvious, and then the character is bleeding out and doesn’t quite get why. We’re not fooled, but we’re completely convinced that the character is fooled.
I think I could tell the places where the plot was constrained by the history of the game universe, because it’s the other parts where you can see Evenson’s peculiar sensibility come through. That’s not a problem; it’s the fun thing about shared universes!
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