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Subject 11 Kindle Edition

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Welcome to the Subject 11 project. We are currently seeking 10 individuals to participate in a research study. Participants shall receive a sum to be discussed during initial telephone interview. Interested parties should email us via our contact page, subject11.webs.com, providing their telephone number and a brief biography of approximately 100 words, describing themselves in terms of gender, age, race, and occupation if any. The study will take place in a series of abandoned buildings rented for this purpose. Note: subjects involved in this test may find themselves experiencing certain psychological distortions. They may experience lapses in memory regarding others and themselves. Subjects may even forget how long this test is supposed to go on for. And please disregard any additional people you may feel you've sighted in the complex, beyond those in the test group. We thank you for your interest in our research.

“Cutting right to the chase, SUBJECT 11 is one of the best novellas I've read all year. Jeffrey Thomas is at his best in this eerie story following a group of ten people (five women and five men) taking part in a mysterious experiment...The mysteries are enticing, and Thomas brings them together for an ending that is sure to linger long in the minds of readers.” - Justin Steele, THE ARKHAM DIGEST

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May 12, 2014
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Jeffrey Thomas is an American author of weird fiction, the creator of the acclaimed milieu Punktown. Books in the Punktown universe include the short story collections PUNKTOWN, VOICES FROM PUNKTOWN, PUNKTOWN: SHADES OF GREY (with his brother, Scott Thomas), and GHOSTS OF PUNKTOWN. Novels in that setting include DEADSTOCK, BLUE WAR, MONSTROCITY, HEALTH AGENT, EVERYBODY SCREAM!, and RED CELLS. Thomas's other short story collections include WORSHIP THE NIGHT, THIRTEEN SPECIMENS, NOCTURNAL EMISSIONS, DOOMSDAYS, TERROR INCOGNITA, UNHOLY DIMENSIONS, AAAIIIEEE!!!, HONEY IS SWEETER THAN BLOOD, and ENCOUNTERS WITH ENOCH COFFIN (with W. H. Pugmire). His other novels include LETTERS FROM HADES, THE FALL OF HADES, BEAUTIFUL HELL, BONELAND, BEYOND THE DOOR, THOUGHT FORMS, SUBJECT 11, LOST IN DARKNESS, THE SEA OF FLESH AND ASH (with his brother, Scott Thomas), BLOOD SOCIETY, and A NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET: THE DREAM DEALERS. Thomas lives in Massachusetts. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00KAMP59Y
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 12, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 623 KB
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 115 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #994,185 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #2,077 in Metaphysical Fiction
- #3,025 in Metaphysical & Visionary Fiction (Books)
- #26,132 in Horror (Kindle Store)

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Jeffrey Thomas is the author of such horror and science fiction novels as THE AMERICAN, DEADSTOCK (finalist for the John W. Campbell Award), BLUE WAR, MONSTROCITY (finalist for the Bram Stoker Award), LETTERS FROM HADES, SUBJECT 11, and BONELAND. His short story collections include PUNKTOWN, GHOSTS OF PUNKTOWN, THE UNNAMED COUNTRY, HAUNTED WORLDS, UNHOLY DIMENSIONS, THIRTEEN SPECIMENS, and THE ENDLESS FALL. Stories by Thomas have been reprinted in THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR, THE YEAR'S BEST HORROR STORIES, and YEAR'S BEST WEIRD FICTION. Though he considers Vietnam his second home, he resides in Massachusetts.

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Christine

From "The Horror Fiction Review"

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2019

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You know those little sleeper indie films that get hardly any buzz but when you watch them on a whim or a recommendation, it turns out to be a stunningly brilliant, eerily effective, blow-your-socks-off solid gold winner?

This is one of those, only in book form. For now. It NEEDS to be a movie. It wouldn’t even need a big budget. A rundown derelict hospital-type facility, some creepy graffiti paint, minimal props, less than a dozen actors, and boom. Winner. Someone get on that.

So you’ve got ten people who signed up as test subjects, the way people do … seems like a good deal at first, right? Spend a while in an abandoned building with no external contact or communications, adhering to rules of anonymity even among themselves (going by numbers instead of names), taking daily unknown medications, etc. At the end, four thousand dollars compensation.

Nothing too strange about that. Minus the medications, we’ve seen reality shows aplenty along those lines – and c’mon if there was a mystery drug trial version of Big Brother or something, it’d probably be mad popular.

Then, of course, things start to go weird. They start to question their own memories and perceptions. None of the participants know if it’s the medications, if it’s psychological tricks being played on them by their unseen test-masters, or what. But didn’t there used to be more of them? Was the graffiti always like that? What’s with the room with the creepy doll’s heads?

Just as the characters are questioning and second-guessing, so too will be the reader. I found myself wanting to skip back and check on continuity details, sure that such-and-such COULDN’T be a mistake because this author is a stone-cold pro who doesn’t make bloopers; it HAD to be deliberate …

Packed with insidious tension and unfolding paranoia, gripping, brilliantly written, a definite winner.

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Kim Smeltzer

Wish I'd taken notes

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2022

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I've never read a book before that made me want to go back and take notes. This tight little nightmare did that very thing. Ten test subjects, each named for their number, packed into an apparently abandoned building for a test of unknown duration (what season is it, anyway?) and subjected to a daily "confession" in a mind-numbing mural-crammed "confessional", each with their own life story, each with their own reasons for joining the experiment.

But hang on...did __ always have that tattoo? Wasn't __ the one who had the mother to care for? Didn't __ have the abusive ex?

Things start getting muddled, and reality is soon in question as the characters form and explore relationships, discover clues about their surroundings, and occasionally don't come back from the confessional...

I can just see the author sitting by his computer with a numbered table with each of the characters listed, along with each of their characteristics as far as that goes...saying "Okay, let's make __ go into the room with __, but then __ comes out alone with the creepy doll head..."

Yes...there are creepy doll heads, too.

If that isn't enough to make you go buy this book, then I don't know what to do with you.

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John Jaeger

Cooked up in a abandoned building does its wonders.

Reviewed in the United States on November 16, 2021

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Ten subjects partake in a social experiment with no knowledge about the experiment itself, while locked up in a old building, with bars on the window and graffiti sprayed on the ancient walls. Things start turn strange, and paranoia builds up, when subjects themselves, unknowingly or not, will soon discover the unknown horrors lingering in the hallways of the building.

Very eerie, weird science fiction novella by Thomas, and he has several tricks behind his typing fingers, while sticking out as a unique voice of modern horror and science fiction.

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BadgerJoeTats

yet beautiful staccato sentences that slam dance against your brain

Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2015

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With the pen as opposed to film a content creator is not limited to location, yet Jeffrey Thomas excels with this location based thriller. "Subject 11" is confined within the walls of an abandoned building, but the desolate location becomes a character of its own. Some extremely unfortunate fools agree to participate in a study of tenuous credibility and find themselves in a nightmarish situation.
Everything about this novella is designed to cause one's pulse to quicken, and their sanity to diminish. The pacing of this story is relentless. The characters are three-dimensional, and their unpleasant situation causes a visceral reaction in the reader. Above all the prose is Jeffrey Thomas' signature terse, yet beautiful staccato sentences that slam dance against your brain.
I cannot recommend this work of speculative dread enough! There is a scene towards the middle during which a black and white mural is examined that caused me to place the book down and rub my temples with awe and apprehension.
A must read for those who look to defy reality with cutting edge fiction.

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CKDelay

I thought this was a great way for the writer to skip all the tedious

Reviewed in the United States on December 29, 2015

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There is no preamble to Subject 11, it starts out already in the middle of some weirdness, and the reader figures out really quickly how all this got started. I thought this was a great way for the writer to skip all the tedious, self-conscious beginnings of a story and just drop you in the middle after things have already gotten moving. It's hard to explain, you'll just have to read it.

The basic plot: 10 people (we never know exactly who they are) have volunteered to stay in this giant old factory/hospital/prison (we never know exactly what it is) for some kind of voluntary experiment (we never know exactly what it is), and almost immediately things start going wrong. It's hard to tell more without ruining parts of the book. But trust me, it's completely unsettling, and in the typical lightning-fast narrative style of Jeffrey Thomas, you never need to wait around long for the action or the plot to pull you in.

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Weird Fiction

Reviewed in Canada on October 7, 2021

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I like this tale, though am a bit thick and will need to re-read it to better grasp the foreshadowing of its conclusion. Well-written and edited by an actual editor who knows how to punctuate and spell. I'll look for more of the author's work.

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