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"Herald Childe has just seen a home movie in which his partner was brutally murdered, his life-fluids drained by a lady with razor-sharp dentures.

"Childe is a private dick. He's accustomed to sticking his nose into other people's business, and it's usually dirty. But he's not prepared for the gut-churning horrors which await him as he wades through the L.A. smog following up a lead in the most disgusting case of his career.

"He is plunged into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality; he becomes entangled with a snake-woman; he is seduced by a filthy human sow; and he lays a ghost, only to realize that he's the one getting laid -- by a woman working off the frustrations of over a century in ectoplasmic exile.

"But what can he do? He can hardly tell the police that he's discovered a crowd of sex-mad vampires and werewolves from another universe..." [jacket blurb, UK pbk, 1975]

"Totally bizarre story set in California which involves a weird cult with an even stranger agenda. At the time of its original publication this book broke new ground in dealing with the kinky and the taboo. Once again, Farmer opened the locked door for modern horror and science fiction writers such as K.W.Jeter and John Shirley to step through.

"Farmer was, and is, a true liberator of the creative imagination." --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 1995).

Recommended.

Book Cover
(image of book covers at 'The Unofficial Philip José Farmer Home Page'... site maintained by Michael Croteau)

Miles' Philip José Farmer Page
(basic booklist to be linked to individual entries with book covers and brief descriptions...
has linked to Mark/Space)

Philip José Farmer
(link to lysator booklist... site maintained by Craig Griffis)

The Unofficial Philip José Farmer Home Page
(booklist with brief descriptions, short story listing with publishing dates, and links to book covers... site maintained by Michael Croteau, e-mail: ledzep@mindspring.com...
best Farmer page so far... recommended)