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The Happy Man: A Tale of Horror

Eric C. Higgs
3.75/5 (192 ratings)
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Charles Ripley has a good job as an engineer, a pretty wife, and an expensive house in a fashionable San Diego suburb. But it isn’t until Ruskin Marsh moves in next door that Ripley realizes how passionless his life really is. Marsh, a connoisseur of the arts, high-powered lawyer, model husband and father, and effortless seducer of women, is so supremely alive that Ripley finds himself irresistibly drawn to him. But after Marsh’s arrival, local girls begin to vanish, marriages end violently, nights are split with endless, desperate screams, and horribly mutilated corpses are found. Soon Ripley becomes caught up in an accelerating maelstrom of sex, drugs, violence, and ghastly, unimaginable rites . . . and begins to see the beauty of life. From its profoundly unsettling first pages, Eric C. Higgs’s  The Happy Man  (1985) reveals the nightmare underside of the American dream and brilliantly echoes the Gothic horror tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl. This new edition features an introduction by the author. “ The Happy Man  is an essential ’80s horror smart, sharp, unforgiving, unlike anything else in the genre.” –  Too Much Horror Fiction “[A] grisly shocker, understated for the most part but carrying the impact of a fist to the stomach . . . a most promising debut.” –  San Diego Union “A thoroughly engrossing Gothic horror story.” –  South Bend Tribune
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ISBN10:
0312361858
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9780312361853
kindle Asin:
B009UON24S

The Happy Man: A Tale of Horror

Eric C. Higgs
3.75/5 (192 ratings)
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Charles Ripley has a good job as an engineer, a pretty wife, and an expensive house in a fashionable San Diego suburb. But it isn’t until Ruskin Marsh moves in next door that Ripley realizes how passionless his life really is. Marsh, a connoisseur of the arts, high-powered lawyer, model husband and father, and effortless seducer of women, is so supremely alive that Ripley finds himself irresistibly drawn to him. But after Marsh’s arrival, local girls begin to vanish, marriages end violently, nights are split with endless, desperate screams, and horribly mutilated corpses are found. Soon Ripley becomes caught up in an accelerating maelstrom of sex, drugs, violence, and ghastly, unimaginable rites . . . and begins to see the beauty of life. From its profoundly unsettling first pages, Eric C. Higgs’s  The Happy Man  (1985) reveals the nightmare underside of the American dream and brilliantly echoes the Gothic horror tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl. This new edition features an introduction by the author. “ The Happy Man  is an essential ’80s horror smart, sharp, unforgiving, unlike anything else in the genre.” –  Too Much Horror Fiction “[A] grisly shocker, understated for the most part but carrying the impact of a fist to the stomach . . . a most promising debut.” –  San Diego Union “A thoroughly engrossing Gothic horror story.” –  South Bend Tribune
Format:
Hardcover
Pages:
pages
Publication:
Publisher:
Edition:
First Edition
Language:
ISBN10:
0312361858
ISBN13:
9780312361853
kindle Asin:
B009UON24S

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