TJ Payne’s Best of BookTok horror breakout Intercepts gets a much-welcomed reboot today, May 5th, reborn under Raven Books in a hardback edition featuring a never-before-seen bonus chapter.
An absolute must for those who live for the DNA of “Stranger Things,” the high-concept chills of Stephen King’s The Institute, or the tech-paranoia of Minority Report, Payne fuses horror and sci-fi with a confident command of both, delivering dread with a clinical edge – quite literally.
The book centres on Joe, who directs a black-site government facility where human ‘antennae’ – subjects pushed to the absolute brink with brutally amplified psychic abilities – are weaponized to intercept threats before they emerge. Joe maintains a cold, professional distance, shielding his conscience with the “greater good” mantra… and shielding his daughter, Riley, from the blood on his hands. But when the state’s most lethal asset turns its sights on his own blood, the question now becomes: how far will Joe go to save those closest to him?
To celebrate the release of the book CinemaChords’ sat down with Payne to discuss the journey from Tik Tok sensation to this new lease of life for the book, the genesis of the project – specifically how Payne transposed classic haunted house tropes into the clinical, creepy corridors of a government black-site – and how he kept the scares grounded and palpable in a world where the high-concept stakes were limited only by his own imagination.
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