Renegade Brainwave by J. J. Guest

"Beware! Beware! Take care! For you are about take part in an interactive story that will reveal the terrifying truth behind the mysterious Soviet space programme! Revelations of incredible horrors that will terrify you with their brutal reality!

For this is the story of a mysterious force — a force that has crossed the billion mile vastness of infinite space! Boneless, fleshless, almost invisible and yet imbued with incredible power — I speak to you of cosmic radiation!

The deadly solar radiation that has the power to raise the dead! The power to amplify brainwaves to many times their natural strength — so that even a weak little puppy could wipe out a city of concrete and steel — with the power of her mind!

In a future that grows ever closer, the fate of the Earth lies in the hands of one man. That man is Detective Frank Douglas — that man, my friend, is YOU!

God help us... in the future!"

Tsathoggua County Police Department, October 31st, 10 PM: Reports are coming in of a mysterious object from space, which has apparently crash landed in the old cemetery! Not just any old cemetery, but the Bide-A-Wee Cemetery for Circus Folk, which was hurriedly built in a dismal, stinking swamp, years ago, after that evil circus came to town and tried to hypnotize all the townspeople!

There's nothing else for it but for you, Detective Frank Douglas, and your best officer, the ever so kooky Donald McRonald, to investigate. It's going to be one of those nights, you can tell, and on nights like these, you prefer to change into something more —comfortable...

Renegade Brainwave is an interactive fiction inspired by Hollywood B-Movies.