Dr. Know demo recording from 2016, Tell Me There’s No Devil illustrates the band’s full twin-engine assault in the heat of an unfinished album’s planning stages. Released here for Dr. Know fans as a way to say Thank You for your support Kyle’s books Life Returns and Live Wire.
ENGINE:Kyle Toucher, Tim Harkins
BATTERY: Ludwig Slingerland
BOTTOM:Chauncey Mortimer
VOICE:Kyle Toucher
Use the player above, or the button below. Feel free to download and share.All decibels are measured in Kilotons.
A storm is coming… In 1993 New Mexico, Black Magic and High Tech find common ground in Medusa Engineering’s Project Dragonfire―and for one endless October night, a fissure opens between here and Elsewhere…
Live Wire, a horror thriller for science fiction fans, begins with four people sequestered in a desert filling station during a freak thunderstorm. Outside, one-hundred-foot electrical towers―miles and miles of them―uproot and stalk the desert. In tandem arrives The Signal, a dissonant machine language that subverts the human mind…harvesting old guilt, shame, and trauma.
Fifty miles down the road at the Very Large Array, the Medusa Engineering Corporation unleashes Project Dragonfire, a bold technological effort that has summoned a ravenous entity from the very fabric of creation—perhaps unwittingly, perhaps not.
Our ensemble includes Pale Brody and his son Caleb, en route to Austin to start a new life; Ken Lightfeather, an Apache trucker with a .44 on his hip; Kwik Gas proprietor Otis Thompson, who assumes the freak electrical storm has spawned the wandering giants; and fast-thinking Nikki Barlowe, who suspects a parallel, sinister operation―led by shadowy Medusa Engineering executive Armand Jenks―is in play.
High stakes and high octane fuel the incendiary action―mass murder and suicide, AC-130 Spectre gunships engaging the VLA in a brutal firefight, electrical towers pulverizing anything in their path, a massive gridwork of steel and feral energy blocking the only route of escape. Old ghosts and unresolved conflicts plague our characters as the signal interferes with their only task: surviving the onslaught.
The night wears on everyone as the electrical towers converge on the Kwik Gas, and only the end of the circuit reveals the nexus of their power. At dawn on Route 60, a final showdown pits human resolve against brute force and inner horror. Will an ancient, shadowless terror find dominion on Earth?
Live Wire is a tight, electrifying novel filled with action at a massive scale, terrors at the intimate level, and revelations of the Universal. If you like your fire hot, your blood red, and your metal mean, then this horror/science fiction hybrid is for you.
Its title taken from the classic Dr. Know song of the same name, Kyle Toucher’s short novella Life Returns offers a look into domestic strife complicated by occult interference.
After the sudden death of their parents, Ian Emerson and his young sister Annie begin a new life with their Aunt Mary and Uncle John in mysterious Walpurgis County. It soon becomes evident that Aunt Mary―who had shunned the children for years―harbors a valid reason for such prolonged detachment. Uncle John, a man dedicated to his obsessions, has laid a nefarious plan for their future, one of servitude and agony.
On the windblown threshold of winter, a final confrontation takes place in the benighted, freezing basement of the house on Gethsemane Lane. With Annie in one hand and the power of The Shadowless Ones in the other, Uncle John revels as a tear in reality―the Shimmer―opens, and an ancient, throbbing mechanism, The Machine, asserts its will…
But aunt Mary has had enough.
And Uncle John won’t stay dead….
Life Returns. An essential step into Toucher’s world of Walpurgis County, where an insane mountain broods over its minions, and superstition intervenes…
Available now for free download, in ePub and PDF formats.
