Fantasy
novel (erotic, dark).
Subtitle: Or Sketches
Among the Ruins of My Mind.
Series: An Exorcism,
Ritual Two.
Also in combined edition with The Image of the Beast
as Image of the Beast.
DEDICATION: "For El Blanko" - only in the Essex House edition.
The combined Playboy and Berkley editions have the dedication:
"For Forrest J. Ackerman, the Scarlet Pimpernel of fantasy".
COVER
TEXT:
In this sequel
to The Image of the Beast, Herald Childe continues
what started out as a murder case –a very gruesome one, admittedly–
but which has now become a struggle against the strange and deadly
beings who have taken his wife, who threaten his manhood and who
threaten mankind itself.
His seems a hopeless quest. He is fighting not people but inhuman,
unhuman monsters from another universe. They take grotesque physical
forms, they recklessly indulge cruel whims - and they are utterly
sex-crazed.
There's Vivienne –amazingly beautiful– who used to be Joan
of Arc. But she has false
teeth and she comes, literally, to pieces. Her lover is a snake-like
horror whose needle teeth drip aphrodisiac venom. There's Count Igescu,
a real live vampire. And these three are surrounded by a crowd of
ghastly aliens, grisly characters in a science fiction nightmare.
But for Childe there is no waking up. It is no bad dream. Though no one
else will believe him, he knows this is for real ...
(Quartet edition.)
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FIRST PUBLICATION
North Hollywood, CA: Essex House
# 0139 (# 020139)
no ISBN
paperback (17×11cm)
-/1969
208
$ 1.95
not credited [= unknown]
The dedication 'For El Blanko' is printed in this edition only.
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Image of the Beast
Chicago, IL: Playboy Press
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ISBN 0-872-16557-4
paperback (18×10,5cm)
10/1979 (1st)
12/1979 (2nd)
336
$ 2.25
Enric
Combined edition with The Image of the Beast.
With a foreword
by
Theodore Sturgeon. The first printing has the name of Farmer in red
gilt printed on the cover (it looks black on the scan however), the
second printing has the name in plain red.
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Image
of the Beast
New York, NY: Playboy
Paperbacks
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-872-16845-X
paperback (18×10,5cm)
11/1980 (3rd)
336
$ 2.50
not credited [= Enric]
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Image of the Beast. With a foreword
by Theodore Sturgeon.
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Image
of the Beast
New
York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-06059-4
paperback (18×10,5cm)
09/1982 (4th)
336
$ 2.75
not
credited [= Enric]
Combined
edition with The
Image of the Beast. With a foreword
by Theodore Sturgeon. The 4th printing according to the book. It was
intended
to be the 4th Playboy printing, but Berkley took over and published it
under
its own imprint.
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Image
of the Beast
New
York, NY: Berkley Books
Science Fiction
ISBN 0-425-07708-X
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
06/1985
336
$ 3.50
Barclay
Shaw
Combined
edition
with The
Image of the Beast. With a foreword
by Theodore Sturgeon. No indication in the book that this the second
Berkley
edition.
Barclay Shaw
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The
Image of the Beast |
Blown
New York,
NY: Creation
Books
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ISBN 1-84068-028-8
11/2001
trade paperback (21,5×13,5cm)
319
$ 15.95 / £ 9.95
John
Coulthart
Combined
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Image of the Beast and Blown.
John Coulthart
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Image of the Beast
...: Creation Oneiros
SF Classics
ISBN 978-1-902197-24-1
trade paperback (21,5×14cm)
01/2008
255
$ 15.95 / £ 9.95
Jim Burns
Published in 2007 according to the book. Combined edition of The Image of the Beast
and Blown. With a Preface by
Theodore Sturgeon.
Jim Burns
UK
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London:
Quartet Books
Fantasy
ISBN 0-704-31239-5
paperback (18×11cm)
08/1975
208
£ 0.90
Jim Burns
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Jim Burns
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London: Quartet
Books (Futura)
Erotica
ISBN 0-704-31239-5
paperback (18×11cm)
09/1976 (2nd)
208
£ 0.95
not credited [= Jim Burns]
On the front cover and the spine only has the logo and the name of the
imprint 'Futura' been printed.
Jim Burns
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London:
Granada / Panther
Fiction/Horror
ISBN 0-586-06211-4
trade paperback (19,5×13cm)
04/1985
141
£ 1.95
Chris Moore
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Chris Moore
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London:
Collins / Grafton
Fantasy/Horror
ISBN 0-586-06211-4
paperback (18×11cm)
10/1988
173
£ 2.99
Chris Moore
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Chris Moore
FRANCE
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French: Gare
à la bête
Paris: Champ
Libre
Chute Libre 5
ISBN
2-85184-031-2
trade paperback (21,5×12,5cm)
03/1975
206
-
Michel Pétris
not credited [= Moebius]
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Moebius
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French: Gare
à la bête
Paris: J.C. Lattès
Titres SF (7)
no ISBN
paperback (18×11cm)
05/1979
249
-
Michel Pétris
Keleck
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Keleck
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French: Gare
à la bête
Paris: Presses Pocket
Science-Fiction No. 5328
ISBN 2-266-02873-1
paperback (18×11cm)
02/1991
249
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Michel Pétris
Wojtek Siudmak
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Wojtek Siudmak
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French: Gare
à la Bête
Paris: Le jardin des Livres
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ISBN 2-914569-24-6
trade paperback (20,5×14cm)
02/2005
255
€ 21,00
Michel Pétris
Patrice Servage
With a photo of PJF, a personally written and signed thanks from him to
his many readers, and a very short interview with the author. Also a
selection of eight international
bookcovers in black and white.
Patrice Servage
GERMANY
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German:
Außer Atem
in Fleisch
München: Heyne
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Band 4558
ISBN 3-453-03147-4
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1989 (1st)
640
DM 16,80
Ronald M. Hahn
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, with The
Image of the Beast and Flesh.
Boris Vallejo
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German:
Außer Atem
in Fleisch
München: Heyne
Science Fiction & Fantasy, Band 4558
ISBN 3-453-03147-4
paperback (18×11,5cm)
-/1992 (4th)
-/1995 (6th)
-/1997 (7th)
-/1999 (8th)
640
DM 16,90
Ronald M. Hahn
Boris Vallejo
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Image of the Beast and Flesh.
Boris Vallejo
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German:
Außer Atem
in Fleisch
Erftstadt: Area
-
ISBN 3-89996-437-3
hardcover
[no dustjacket] (22×14cm)
03/2005
512
€ 9,95
Ronald M. Hahn
Boris Vallejo
Omnibus, with The
Image of the Beast and Flesh.
Boris Vallejo
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Hungarian: Fenevadak
Debrecen: Cherubion
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ISBN 963-7841-21-0
paperback (18×11cm)
-/1993
191
Ft 229
Nemes István
Zsilvölgyi Csaba
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Zsilvölgyi Csaba
ITALY
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Italian: Nelle
rovine della mente
Milan: Olympia Press Italia
Collana Blu III (Collana Fantascienza Erotica)
no ISBN
hardcover (18,5×12cm)
01/1973
214
L 2.500
Luigi Giambonelli
not credited [= unknown]
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Italian: Nelle
rovine della mente
Rome: Fanucci Editore
Edizione Tascabile 32
ISBN 88-347-0510-6
paperback (18×11cm)
10/1995
215
L 12.000
Luigi Giambonelli
not credited [= Jim Burns]
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Jim Burns
JAPAN
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Japanese: 淫
獣の妖宴 (Inju no Yoen)
...: KobunSha
CR Bunko #27
ISBN 4-334-75027-3
paperback (15×11cm)
10/1986
252
-
Ken Asamatsu
?
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NETHERLANDS
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Dutch: De
belustheid van het beest
Utrecht: Bruna
Fantasy en horror 17
ISBN
90-229-3517-5
paperback (17,5×11,5cm)
-/1973
160
ƒ 3,75
J. van Vliegen
not credited [= Peter Maxish]
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Peter Maxish
RUSSIA
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Russian: Апофеоз
in Миры Филипа Фармера 12
Riga & Moscow: Polaris
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ISBN 5-88132-253-2
hardcover
[no dustjacket] (20,5×13,5cm)
01/1997
336
-
R. Lebedev
M. Yermakov
Pictorial boards. Omnibus, together with The
Image of the Beast.
M. Yermakov
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Spanish: ¡Cuidado
con la bestia!
Barcelona: Anagrama
Contraseñas 44
ISBN 84-339-3044-3
trade paperback (20×13cm)
10/1982 (1st)
176
Ps 1058
Jordi Beltrán
Julio Vivas
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Julio Vivas
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Spanish: ¡Cuidado
con la bestia!
Barcelona: Anagrama
Contraseñas 44
ISBN 84-339-3044-3
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03/1987 (2nd)
176
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