Kenneth Rayner Johnson - The Succubus

[dem bones]

Kenneth Rayner Johnson - The Succubus (Nel 1980, originally Blond & Briggs, 1979)

David O'Connor

Blurb:

WHAT THE HELL IS HAPPENING TO ME?

In a London flat a young man has gone to ground. Hiding out until the storm of public interest in a bizarre sex-and-kidnap court case blows over.

But in the night, he is visited by something at once irresistible and terrifying.

In the night comes a creature in the form of the most desirable of women to possess him until the very last pang of lust is slaked. Panic-stricken friends, brilliant psychiatrists, and one dead-end psychic researcher hold the ring as modern medicine confronts the essence of evil.

Set in and around Bedford Square, Bloomsbury. Essentially the Joyce McKinney 'Mormon in bondage' adduction scandal meets The Exorcist, as poor little rich girl Candice Maltman becomes obsessed with hung up and confused religious casualty Troy Valens. Guest appearances from Kathleen Colllins and daughter Geraldine of the Atlantis bookshop in Museum Street, and featuring Jeff Tarrant, chainsmoking, drink dependent ghost-hunter extraordinaire. Favourite line (attributed to Dr. Elder). "We are born mad. We aquire morality and become stupid and unhappy. Then we die." Moral. If you're going to raise a demon, be sure to clean up after the ritual or you might unleash Lilith!

[helrunar]

What fun!  

Dem, your posts yesterday are a true return to form. Such grim talent laced with such sparkling wit!  Were I wearing a cap, I'd doff it to 'ee!

cheers, H.