Image of the Beast by Philip Jose Farmer

[darkglobe]

Some of ya'll might be interested in this oddity from the way back past... a possible influence on Barker?

IMAGE OF THE BEAST at AMAZON

This mini review sums things up nicely:
Award-winning author Philip José Farmer’s 1960s Science Fiction porn epic. Comprising The Image Of The Beast – An Exorcism, Ritual One, and Blown – An Exorcism, Ritual Two. This mind-blowing classic conjures a universe of unrelenting sexual degradation and horror. 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 an ectoplasmic simulacrum of Satanic child-killer Gilles de Rais.

[dante]

Sounds bizarre!!
I'm getting it.....
Good shout, Darkglobe mate


EDIT: ok this is now really freaking me out.....
that cover, the naked woman with the wolf's head, where on earth (or in hell) have i seen that before??
it's taking me right back to when i was a kid. my palms are sweating. that image has haunted me for YEARS!!! .....seriously.

[darkglobe]

You may have seen the book itself in a store, lo those many years ago!
I know it from an underground comic that I found about 8 years ago...

[dante]

It was certainly on the cover of some 80's book or magazine that i had - it freaked me out then, it freaks me out now!!

I wish i could remember where i've seen it.