Disch, Thomas M. — The Priest: A Gothic Romance

Millenium, London, 1994. First Edition, Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Very Good. 9781857980905 Red coloured boards with silver coloured titles to the back strip. Colour illustrated dustwrapper by Les Edwards, with white and red coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. Father Patrick Bryce is a Catholic priest in Minneapolis – who also happens to have a paedophile past. He has returned from a church run retreat for priests with his style of predilection – "rehabilitated". This means he is better able to keep his paedophilia active and much better hidden. That is, until, the blackmail begins – each demand more extreme than the one before. But, more unsettling for Patrick Bryce is the nightmares that he is having are not dreams at all, but, a thirteenth century Bishop Silvanus de Roquefortand he our living, together and separately, a maze of soul killing horrors with an end distinctly hellish. A little rubbing of the book edges with very light age toning of the text block edges and pages. Rubbing of the dustwrapper edges and panels. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. [8], 310, [2] pages.. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1.