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The story follows Herald Childe, a private detective, who is sent a snuff film of his partner being murdered by what appears to be a vampire. His investigation into the identity of the killers leads him into a world of apparent monsters who have a predilection for brutal and supernatural sex. The monsters include vampires, werewolves, snake-women, and other undefined shape-changers.
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- Author
- Philip José Farmer
- First published
- October 15, 1982
- Pages
- 278
- Publisher
- Berkley, playboy press, Islamic Texts Society
- Editions
- 10
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781563331664
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**Philip José Farmer** was an American author, principally known for his award-winning science fiction and fantasy novels and short stories. Farmer is best known for his sequences of novel — especially the World of Tiers (1965–93) and Riverworld (1971–83) series. He is noted for the pioneering use of sexual and religious themes in his work, his fascination for — and reworking of — the lore of celebrated pulp heroes, and occasional tongue-in-cheek pseudonymous works written as if by fictional characters. Philip José Farmer is also well known for remixing classic fictional characters, worlds, and both real and fake authors. This is epitomized with his Wold Newton family group of books that tie
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