Age of Evil

Christopher Quinn, British novelist and eldest son of Lord and Lady Quinn of Rotchestershire, returns from a book signing to find both parents dead. His reaction — dropping to his knees and laughing — disturbs him enough that he checks himself into a psychiatric hospital, where he is diagnosed with a borderline psychopathic personality and asked to stay for evaluation. One night he is woken by a terrible scream. The building has gone quiet in a way that does not feel like quiet. A security guard collapses through his door with a knife in his spine. Quinn dresses, takes the dead guard's gun, and faces whatever is waiting outside — a thin and puzzling smile on his face as he opens the door.