The Image of the Beast

A SEXORCISM IMAGE OF THE BEAST is award-winning author Philip José Farmer's epic of "SF-porn", comprising The Image of the Beast - An Exorcism, Ritual One, and Blown - An Exorcism, Ritual Two. 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 entangled with sex-starved she-ghosts, libidinous snake-women, a filthy human sow, and a she-creature who gives birth to the limbless, ectoplasmic simulacrum of satanic child-killer Gilles de Rais. In this mind-blowing SF classic, Philip José Farmer conjures up a universe of unrelenting sexual degradation and horror populated by erogenous vampires and other polymorphic creatures from the darkest recesses of the imagination. This new edition includes a foreword by Theodore Sturgeon. * Cover art: Jim Burns The Image of the Beast -- first published in 1968 by Essex House The Image of the Beast -- first published in 1969 by Essex House