The image of the beast - Philip Jose Farmer

Private Dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being brutally 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, snake-women and a filthy human sow. In 'Image of The Beast' and its sequel 'Blown' - both published in one volume, Farmer conjures up a universe of unrelenti sexual degradation and horror populated by erogenous vampires, werewolves and other polymorphic creatures from the darkest recesses of imagination