Simon Rocail

SIMON ROCAIL IS A KILLER. A MONSTER. AN ICON. AND SOME LEGENDS REFUSE TO DIE.

From John A. Russo, legendary co-creator of Night of the Living Dead, comes a brutal horror series about the creation of a modern monster—and the terrifying consequences of turning evil into entertainment.

Simon Rocail is a sadistic murderer whose horrific crimes leave shattered lives in their wake. Armed with a deadly blade concealed beneath his artificial hand, he becomes the stuff of nightmares: hunted by police, feared by his victims, and eventually transformed by filmmaker Aaron Scott into the centerpiece of a wildly successful horror franchise.

But when Simon Rocail becomes a pop-culture phenomenon, the line between fiction and reality begins to disappear.

Fans dress like him. Movies glorify him. His image becomes merchandise. And disturbed minds begin wondering what it would be like to stop watching Simon Rocail…and become him.

Across a series of interconnected tales of murder, obsession, psychological terror, and survival, Russo explores the dark territory where real violence becomes entertainment—and entertainment threatens to inspire something horrifyingly real.

Because Simon Rocail doesn’t have to be alive to keep killing.

For readers of serial-killer thrillers, psychological horror, slasher fiction, and dark tales about the dangerous power of obsession, the Simon Rocail series takes the reader behind the mask—and into the mind of a monster whose influence may prove even more terrifying than the man himself.