Thrilled to Death

When Man Plays God, Evil Follows!

Now, from the imagination of international bestseller James Byron Huggins comes this electrifying boxed set of three classic sci-fi thrillers exploring the theme of science treading on forbidden ground and what can happen when man’s arrogance oversteps wisdom.

From The Author:

The horror of man playing God is a literary theme as old as Frankenstein by Mary Shelly. There are other magnificent stories, of course, some ancient, that belong to that list. And when I began my writing career, I was motivated by this very same theme. So it was with this fascination, or perhaps I should say ‘horror,’ that I was inspired to write Hunter, Leviathan, and Cain.

This was my theme when I wrote Leviathan, which is basically a modern-day re-telling of Beowulf, which was itself a re-telling of an ancient Hebrew story of similar nature. Some stories have eternal relevance regardless of time, and Leviathan was written to capture the eternal battle between Good and Evil that has always been present in this world and often shared in stories that have been told and retold around centuries of campfires.

Cain was my first exploration into what some would term ‘supernatural evil.’ It is the story of the darkest evil seeking to destroy the purest good. Cain, the antagonist, is a scientifically created man-god who was dead but now lives due to the efforts of scientists. Yet only his body has been resurrected. Hence, Satan seizes the void within Cain. So now you have Evil personified inhabiting the body of a superhuman, indestructible killing machine intent on destroying the earth. Making matters worse, the team dispatched to stop him is composed of three flawed mortals.

The last of this trilogy is Hunter, which is probably as close as I’ll ever get to writing a biography. The science and the creature, of course, are fictional facets that I used to craft the story. But the protagonist, Hunter, is a man who was raised as I was raised with the values I still hold. With Hunter, I wanted to further explore how human arrogance can result in scientific horror.

What I wanted to create, with all three books, are epic stories of how our intelligence, our determination, our skills and our courage can carry us through even the hardest battles if we never surrender and never stop fighting. I wanted to say that Evil is overrated. And it can be beaten.