The Image Of The Beast

Private dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being hideously murdered. His pursuit of the killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality, as he becomes with sex-starved she-ghosts, snake-women, a filthy human sow, and a woman who gives birth to a limbless, ectoplasmic simulacrum of satanic child-killer Gilles de Rais. In IMAGE OF THE BEAST and its sequel, BLOWN--both published in this volume-science fiction great Philip Jose Farmer conjures up a universe populated by creatures from the darkest recesses of the human imagination. Philip Jose Farmer is the best-selling author of the Riverworld series, and winner of several Hugo awards for innovations in science fiction.