Synopsis
Winner of a Literary Titan Book Award.
Wickedly funny dark humor supernatural thriller that blends a riveting murder mystery with an occult horror novel.
“What a page turner! Witty, literate, scary, sexy, and powerfully evocative.”—Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author
It’s 1982. Steve Witowski, a failed songwriter on the run from the law, finds himself caught in a supernatural thriller after an apparently innocent act of heroism—saving a woman from a vicious assault by a seemingly unstoppable wino. The woman, Victoria, is just part of a mystery Steve can’t unravel. Even as he’s looting the decomposing dead for the secrets of a self-proclaimed sorcerer. Even as he plummets into a nightmare of fire and blood and murder. Even then, Steve remains certain the sorcerer’s spells, the occult rituals—the supposed demons and supernatural horror—are simply delusion and fantasy. Steve is wrong.
Victoria, who has just bought a dilapidated church with a haunting past, entangles Steve in a deadly game of dark magic and rituals. As, unknown to him, the demon grows desperate, Steve plunges deeper into a world of crypts, grave robbing, and long-forgotten secrets, all while trying to escape his own haunted past. But when the face of the man Steve killed appears on his arm, the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur.
This supernatural novel will leave you on the edge of your seat, with wickedly funny dark humor and, ultimately, pulse-pounding suspense, as Steve and Victoria navigate a twisted adventure full of occult horror, supernatural suspense, and shocking revelations.
"An enormous amount of fun. Wholly fresh and original. Wickedly funny . . . The Great Dick is a hot, sweaty, magic- and murder-infused rollercoaster of a story that takes you in every direction except the one you're expecting . . . I loved it."—David Moody, author of Hater and Autumn
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About the Author
Barry Maher writes the nationally syndicated Slightly Off-Kilter column and astonishing books like The Great Dick: And the Dysfunctional Demon, a darkly funny, supernatural thriller set in California in 1982. Advance praise calls the book, "impossible to put down," "an absolute blast," "wholly fresh and original," "witty, literate, scary, sexy" and much, much more.
Aside from his writing, Barry has told his stories to audiences all over the country and around the world. His keynotes blend sharp insight with deadpan humor, and his client list is a who's who of leading businesses, associations and government agencies.
Barry himself has been featured on The Today Show, CBS, CNN, CNBC, and in hundreds of publications—everything from The New York Times, USA Today, and The Wall Street Journal to, what he insists is his personal favorite, Funeral Service Insider.
As for his education, he cites, "Four years at Notre Dame, ninety minutes of Graduate Journalism at U.C. Berkeley, and five befuddled weeks at Burger King's Whopper College." He's also been incarcerated twice. Once for not making a left hand turn out of a left hand turn lane, and once for aiding and abetting a loiterer. He remains deeply repentant—primarily about Whopper College.
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