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The Velvet Scalpel: The Gaslighter's Lexicon

The Velvet Scalpel: The Gaslighter's Lexicon


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The Velvet Scalpel: The Gaslighter's Lexicon is a literary act of exposure-a psychological thriller written in the language of truth and illusion. It reads like a dossier smuggled out of a collapsing republic, a collection of stories that dissect how governments, media, and institutions rewrite reality while teaching the reader, line by line, how to see through it. Through twenty-two interlinked scenes, each written in the haunting Velvet Scalpel style, the book takes you inside the machinery of manipulation. You stand beside the protester accused of violence she never committed, the analyst who discovers her agency's data was inverted to make failure look like progress, the broadcaster whose job is to sedate the nation with calm voices and gentle lies. Every story is self-contained and yet part of one vast pattern-an anatomy of gaslighting so precise that by the end, the reader has learned to diagnose it in the real world. This is not dystopia. It is the present tense viewed without anesthesia. The narrative moves from the intimate to the institutional, from the trembling of one human voice to the static hum of a collective awakening. Truth is not given; it must be felt-in the body, in the language, in the dissonance between what we see and what we're told to believe. The Gaslighter's Lexicon exposes the psychological tactics that sustain power: denial, reframing, minimization, euphemism, and the manufactured consensus that turns corruption into comfort. But it doesn't stop at revelation-it offers countermeasures. Its appendix, The Gaslighter's Lexicon, functions as a field guide and deprogramming manual, showing how to identify manipulation in media, politics, and daily life. Equal parts literature, manifesto, and mirror, this book reads like an encrypted confession decoded by empathy. It is as much about recovery as resistance: the slow reclamation of personal and collective memory after years of engineered doubt. For readers of Orwell, Arendt, and Didion, but written in the language of dream and evidence, The Velvet Scalpel: The Gaslighter's Lexicon is a story you don't just read-you wake up inside it. When you reach the final line, you'll understand the whisper that threads through every page: You are the archive now.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9798901555392
  • Publisher: Scrying Mirror Books
  • Publisher Imprint: Scrying Mirror Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 132
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The Gaslighter's Lexicon
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 8901555395
  • Publisher Date: 10 Nov 2025
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 7 mm
  • Weight: 236 gr


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