Valley Versus Vector

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valley Versus Vector</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a psychoanalytic folk horror novel that plunges into the depths of abjection trauma and bodily transgression. When Ellis Horning a nurse at Christ Hospital in Oregon experiences a necrophilic rupture with a deceased patient his psyche fractures-opening a conduit to a sentient bacterial intelligence known as the Christ Contagion. Haunted by childhood guilt and drawn into a hallucinatory communion with the river's divine ecology Ellis becomes the site of a metaphysical infection that reconfigures identity desire and the limits of the human. Building on Julia Kristeva's theory of abjection within a folk horror and ecological mystical setting </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Valley Versus Vector </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is a descent into the horror of becoming set within the landscapes of Corvallis Oregon and Greenville South Carolina. </span></p>