The Bighead - Illustrated Edition

This is the author's preferred version. Including the original twenty-page ending that was intended and being published here for the first time. Also includes twenty-one full page illustrations. Who, or what, is the BIGHEAD? Could it be a supernatural psychopath? Whatever it is, it's on a roll now, raging out of the Virginia backwoods and leaving a trail of blood and horror in his wake. JERRICA, Sex-addict.. a woman so far out of control she would make Linda Lovelace look like a schoolmarm. And little does she know, The Bighead is coming...for her. THE ABBEY, closed for years, is back in business, haunted by two nuns...from hell. Erotopathic, clinically demented, gross beyond belief. To the faithful priest, Father Alexander, they will do things that absolutely beggar description...

From Booklist

“She stove the baby’s head in with a cast-iron skillet. The head burst like a pale, ripe fruit.” So begins splatterpunk author Lee’s infamous 1997 novel, the reading of which has become a rite of passage for gore-hounds everywhere. Many call it the grossest book ever written—and, for once, the hype ain’t hyperbole. Two new friends, big-city nyphomaniac Jerrica and small-town nymphomaniac-in-training Charity, travel to the latter’s Appalachian hometown, where they meet a foul-mouthed priest who has been tasked with restoring a mysterious abbey. Elsewhere in town, two slobbering, insane, and horny backwoods moonshiners tirelessly rape and murder random people in ways that are, shall we say, creative. Also entering into the fun is the hydrocephalatic cannibal known as the Bighead, “a deformed, woods-rompin’, brain-eatin’, pussy-bustin’ retart!” How to review something so revolting? There must be 50 over-the-top sex scenes, half of them assaults, and many of them involving orifices not typically awarded the spotlight. (Spoiler: one involves a colostomy bag.) The problem for those looking to chuck this book into the wood-chipper is that Lee can actually write, and in those rare moments when he’s not giving into his deviant obsessions, his expansive vocabulary and ear for hill-country slang make for some swell readin’: “Gawd damn, but weren’t it good ta et a raw brain busted fresh out the skull!” Got a strong stomach? Fine, then, but we’d still recommend having a barf bag at the ready. --Daniel Kraus

About the Author

Edward Lee is the author of over fifteen novels in horror and suspense. Novels include: The Stickmen, Incubi, The Chosen, Dahmer's Not Dead (with Elizabeth Steffen), Succubi, Operator B and Ghoul to name a few. He is also the author of Usher's, his first short story collection.

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