他只好将故事(shì )登报，并随即受到了外星(xīng )人的(🅱)追杀。

在一个迥异鬼(guǐ )魅的社会，上百层的高楼大厦拔地而(😇)起，俨然构筑了一个全然封闭的城市乡镇(zhèn )。

就在约翰一行人(🕣)走投无(wú )路之时，凶手竟然主动献(xiàn )出了真身。

与此同时，他(🌨)们(🍄)被告知，通过创新手段，使游戏最恐怖的人将获得(dé )100万美元(🕉)的奖金。

克雷顿深(shēn )知这种武器的杀伤力之大(dà )，也明白这(🥄)两(🐴)边都不是正义之师，他不想被人利用，于是东躲西藏疲于奔(📸)命。

The main character is Dr. Max Holst, a successful neurosurgeon. One day an intense little man named Steinmetz shows up, who has the real ability to create objects out of thin air, using only his mind. As no one believes him at first, he is held at a ward for mental patients, but manifests the key to his door and escapes. As he has a special interest in Dr. Holst, Steinmetz subsequently invites Holst to his large mansion, which is full of expensive paintings and sculptures, and proves to him that he can in fact materialise objects. Steinmetz’s abilities are evolving by leaps and bounds, and is progressing from being able to create objects only to being able to create living things. His ultimate ambition is to be able to create a human being. He tells Dr. Holst that if he will only perform a certain brain operation on him, Steinmetz will become able to attain his goal. He’s got all the necessary equipment set up in his basement. Dr. Holst, however, is too spooked by the whole thing to agree to this mad scheme, and refuses. Steinmetz then sets about manipulating Holst’s life, to pressure him into performing the operation. By then Steinmetz has become able to create a temporary human being, and in the hope that he can perhaps make his own creation perform the operation, he manifests a doppelganger of Dr. Holst. This double proceeds to take over Dr. Holst’s life, creating chaos for him professionally and personally. And then Dr. Holst starts fighting back. The ending has the dual virtue of being both unexpected and satisfying.。