David Ho

The Curse Of Molach David Ho

The novel "The Curse of the Moloch" is about a serial killer by the name of Jeremiah Micaiah, whose victims were women with reddish hair. He was born, through rape, in a coal-mining district. Brought up by the heavy-hand of his red-hairedmother, a Miz' Jezebel who had instilled him with the fear of the devil and especially the MOLOCH, A Biblical fire god, for sins he committed. This fear was drilled further into his mind by the preacher in the church. This fear was carried to his very place of employment, namely a miner in the pits. An accident at work left him mentally unstable which eventually led him to committ murder upon Miz' Jezebel, his red-haired mother. The fear of haunting by the ghost of his mother forced him to flee his town to a large city. From that period onwards, his fear of the red of hair which signified the return of the ghost of his mother caused him to murder a string of women (mainly with red hair), . At the end, The MOLOCH, the fire god, snared him to the pit of sacrifice.