| Dermaphoria | |
| Author: | Craig Clevenger |
| Cover Artist: | Jacket design by Dorothy Carico Smith |
| Country: | United States |
| Language: | English |
| Genre: | Novel |
| Publisher: | MacAdam/Cage |
| Pub Date: | October 9, 2005 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardcover, Paperback) |
| Pages: | 214 pp (first edition, hardback) |
| Isbn: | 1-931561-75-3 |
| Dewey: | 813/.6 22 |
| Congress: | PS3603.L49 D47 2005 |
| Oclc: | 60972005 |
| Preceded By: | The Contortionist's Handbook |
Dermaphoria (2005) is a novel written by American author Craig Clevenger.
Eric Ashworth awakens in jail, unable to remember how he got there or why. All he does remember is a woman's name: Desiree.
Bailed out and holed up in a low rent motel, Eric finds the solution to his amnesia in a strange new hallucinogen. By synthesizing the sense of touch, the drug produces a disjointed series of sensations that slowly allow Eric to remember his former life as a clandestine chemist. With steadily increasing doses, Eric reassembles his past at the expense of his grip on the present, and his distinction between truth and fantasy crumbles as his paranoia grows in tandem with his tolerance.
Room 621, the room Eric Ashworth rents is also the room number belonging to Barton Fink in the Coen Brothers' movie of the same name.
The book was adapted into a film, which premiered on June 13, 2014 at the East End Film Festival. It was directed by Ross Clarke and starred Joseph Morgan, Ron Perlman, Kate Walsh, and Walton Goggins.[1]