Father Figure

South of Anchorage, Alaska, accessible only from a mud-rutted road off Seward Highway, is the town of Lodgepole. After midnight, after the sun has finally gone down, among the blueberry bushes of White Birch Park overlooking the lime green waters of Little Muncho Lake, a man climbs on top of a woman and begins making love to her. As her orgasm rises he puts his hands around her throat, shutting off her air. She struggles, not to stop him, but to stop herself from trying instinctively to pull his hands off her throat. As the top joints of his thumb meet at the front of her throat she comes, her cry of orgasm ricocheting around inside her forever. Daryl Putnam, handsome, bookish, wakes from a nightmare and decides to do something he hasn't done in years, take a walk outside at night. Down by the lake he comes across the body of the strangled woman. FATHER FIGURE is a gripping word erotic horror novel describing the slow corruption of two innocents, Daryl and Sally, by a man who claims to have existed for all time. The novel contains a large number of creepily effective horror scenes, showcasing creatures never imagined before, including a sofa-sized spider with three women's upper bodies attached atop, a pair of shapely legs made out of the parts of a half dozen women, and a long thing with low intelligence and thousands of side legs that dwells in the bathroom; as well as sexually explicit language (but it is the language of poetry, rather than pornography). This is the first publication of the complete, unexpurgated text of the underground classic Father Figure, excerpts of which have been showing up on the Internet for years. Father Figure is a combination of Vladimir Nabokov, William S. Burroughs, and The Hardy Boys.