SCARE TACTIX is a 144-page novel of pure uncut kookacana and medium salsa social satire that VJH released by way of a now dead-as-yesterday’s-bread independent press in September 2023. It is his second novel (following 2016’s FUTURE TO THE BACK).

Synopsis, would we?~ Turista Foy, professional house haunter and restaurant ambience consultant, lives in Washington, DC (District of Comancheria) on a planet called Vaan, where dinosaurs still roam, and humans are beginning to have second thoughts about accepting a world where their social lives are increasingly being constructed to generate data from which profit can be extracted. It’s business as (un)usual until Turista learns her name has recently been searched on the internet four hundred thousand times and then receives a manila envelope with a letter inside instructing her to a liminal corner of a shopping mall where she comes face to face with her doppelganger and is whooshed off to a brand new life of high strangeness involving interdimensional travel, a menacing AI stalker, a group of fringe scientist furries, a menagerie of weird critters, a few robust deaths, a high-profile cryptid, cosmic sex workers, a sortie to Vaan’s doppelganger planet (a zero-context freakshow called EARTH), and an eventual assassination attempt by killer birds.