The Outlast Trials Is An Exercise In Bad Taste And Good Politics

In Rex Miller’s 1987 horror novel Slob , Chicago is under the blight of “Chaingang,” a 500-pound killer whose hunger for food and flesh is unequaled. Despite his appearance and more odorous stench, the walking death manages to maneuver with little detection due to what’s described as an uncanny charisma. He is effectively camouflaged. Such an unusual make of man, it turns out, is not born. Chaingang was designed by the Pentagon, part of a covert project to create an unstoppable murder machine to turn the tide in Vietnam. A Michael Myers for Uncle Sam.