Böcker av Thomas Horan

In November of 1960, the town of Kent, Maine vanished off the face of the earth, taking its seven hundred and twenty-eight residents with it. Despite the police's best efforts, no answer was ever given as to where the town went or why it vanished. Sixty years later, one of the officers involved in the case is approached by a mysterious girl who wants to know the full story of what happened during that fateful week.Inspired by the creepypasta The Disappearance of Ashley, Kansas, Kent is a personal account of a mystery beyond human comprehension and is a reflection on the real-life mysteries that have no real beginning or end.

This book assesses key works of twentieth-century dystopian fiction, including Katharine Burdekin's Swastika Night, George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, and Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, to demonstrate that the major authors of this genre locate empathy and morality in eroticism.