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Image of the Beast Paperback – November 30, 2007

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Award-winning author Philip José Farmers 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.

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100 pages
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English
Publisher

Creation
Publication date

November 30, 2007
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6 x 1 x 9 inches
ISBN-10

1902197240
ISBN-13

978-1902197241
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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Creation; Expanded Ed edition (November 30, 2007)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 100 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1902197240
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1902197241
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.1 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1 x 9 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,396,131 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #7,057 in Science Fiction Erotica
- #146,255 in Science Fiction (Books)
- #193,914 in Fantasy (Books)

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McArthudw

Great Book with tiny tiny font

Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2015

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The book is great I have been looking for it for over 20+ years, but it seems that the publisher was afraid of a paper shortage so they printed it in a near microscopic font, rendering it nearly unreadable. While I recommend the book, I would not buy it from this publisher.

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marcel esubi

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2015

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I love it.

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History Buff

Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2014

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A old classic available to read once again.

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Philip Brown

Different

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2014

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First read this book years ago and was shocked by it then and for some reason its even more shocking this time. Really not what might one might expect from Philip Jose Farmer however it does also show the range and depth of his work. Not for the faint hearted :)

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Michael Mangen

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 18, 2014

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This is a subject you either love os totally hate. I loved it. Great writer and creative story.

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Penelope G. Spiller

Prepare to be shocked...

Reviewed in the United States on September 30, 2009

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It is good to know it is possible to be surprised by Philip Jose Farmer.

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J. COMER

Horror porn for SF fans

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2020

Adult rated for violence and sex. This short novel is an homage to classic pulp SF such as Campbell's The Mightiest Machine and Moore's "Shambleau", in which mythical beings turn out to be aliens. Farmer spices up this long-suffering trope with a huge amount of sex, graphically described, lewd and violent. There is no point in listing the sex acts performed but this novel is NSFW. One intriguing theme is the smog emergency, which dates the book badly, since by the 21st century, Los Angeles no longer has this amount of smog because of environmental regulations. For those who knew him, Forrest J Ackerman appears as a minor character (but is not involved in the numerous scenes of sex between all sorts of weird monsters and freaks). Recommended for fans of extreme horror porn, such as the author's *A Feast Unknown*.

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Solipso

A sexually explicit blend of horror and science fiction

Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2011

Though I read the 1979 Playboy Press edition of IMAGE OF THE BEAST, which was merged with its sequel BLOWN, and though I published my review for it on its page, I am also publishing my review here on the pages for the newer 2007 edition. I believe there is no change in the story's text. The Book Description for the 2007 edition says that BLOWN is included. The 2007 edition has only 255 pages, compared to 336 in the 1979 edition, but the 2007 paperback has bigger dimensions. If you have the 2007 edition, check the last sentence (it will not spoil the story). If it reads, "Could Dr. Jekyll get rid of Mr. Hyde?", then you do have the full story, including both IMAGE OF THE BEAST and BLOWN.

IMAGE OF THE BEAST (merged in this volume with its sequel BLOWN) is a blend of horror and science fiction. Be advised that the explicit sex will cause some readers to consider the book pornographic. To an extent, the explicitness is necessary for the author to generate appropriate atmosphere. But, as fond as I am of Philip Jose Farmer, he goes beyond what is necessary here, an excess that intermittently proves boring. So I lower my rating by one star.

If you skim through the sex (or if you don't mind it), the plot is absorbing and the pace moves forward briskly. In Los Angeles in the 1970s, the hero Herald Childe is with a group of policemen as they view a home video of a sexy, very bloody, and very unusual homicide. Childe is a private detective, and the victim is his partner. Because the L.A. basin is beset with successive disasters of smog and flood, and because evidence is so scanty, manpower shortage compels the police department to allow Childe to investigate the murder on his own.

He encounters werewolves, a vampire, and other weird creatures. But if you are a science fiction fan who has no taste for horror, be patient. Eventually the story moves toward science fiction. That is, a sort of schlocky science fiction, closer to Edgar Rice Burroughs than Arthur C. Clarke.

Forrest J Ackerman, a real-life person, plays a supporting role in the story. So much so that I suppose Farmer knew him well enough to avoid any civil litigation. Check out Ackerman's biography at the Internet's Wikipedia. Though IMAGE OF THE BEAST gives us a good number of other colorful characters, none are given in depth. This was typical of Farmer, who wrote short novels with the flair of a master of pulp fiction.

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Sex, sex and a little science

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on October 30, 2015

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This is a five star effort. Farmer has taken the idea of sex as a form of energy and matched it to the monsters of legend, presuming they are actually aliens amongst us. He has also added in a bit of the private eye genre although that soon gets abandoned. The sex in the book is very explicit and shocking in the first instance. I admit I was nearly jolted out of my usual broad minded nature . Prurient folk will concentrate on that aspect of the story but in my own case the fact that the details of the wild sex is repeated over and over dulls the effect and you begin to think, oh, read that, been shocked, now it's getting to be old news. The bottom line is this is a well written book about aliens but not for the prudish.

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Graham Shanks

Great book but a warning

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 4, 2014

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I bought Image Of The Beast and the sequel Blown when they were first published in UK back in the 70s. Recently, they came up in a conversation with a friend and I recommended them to him (they're off the wall Farmer stuff at his most outrageously imaginative). I still had the old paperbacks, although they were pretty tatty by now, and would have given them to him if I could have found them both on Kindle.

Now they are BUT the big problem is that after having bought them both I find that Blown is now superfluous. Somewhere along the line the two novels were incorporated into one, just entitled Image Of The Beast. I suspect if happened before Kindle made them available and that the Kindle IotB was taken from a re-published version of both books.

I haven't made a thorough check of how close the combined version is to the two originals (though I have made random comparisons and ending certainly is the same) but I suspect they're not that different.

So, I would advise if you're buying the Kindle versions you only need IotB, forget Blown.

Apologies if someone else has already pointed this out, but if they have I totally missed it.

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Dieter Mooyer

The death of a linear story.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 14, 2014

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This book doesn't need an introduction. Although it starts with an introduction from another great mind of Science Fiction, namely Theodore Sturgeon. And what a nice cover of a truly gifted artist. Anyway, why would you read a book which could easily be miscounted for a sleazy afternoon C-rated pornographic novel? Because it ISN'T. The eyes are deceived and the mind is deluded; this book has more depth than space has space. Hell, all multi-level-marketing-organizations in the world would wish the had these kind of levels. Read it and reread it and maybe you will find the real story behind it. Good Luck.

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Charles E. Gorrie

You like horror you’ll love this

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 22, 2019

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Love this book of horror science fiction. Read it maybe 50 yrs ago.

Janis

Sexuelle Metaphysik

Reviewed in Germany on September 26, 2011

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It is a book for you if you like stories about supernatural creatures and enjoy open sexual scenes. It would be interesting to see the "next ritual".

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