Private investigator Herald Childe watches a snuff movie of his partner being brutally murdered. The subsequent pursuit of his killers takes him through the LA smog and into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality: the most extreme and disturbing case of his career. With sex-starved she-ghosts, snake-women, vampires, werewolves and a filthy human sow, Philip José Farmer conjures up a universe of sexual degradation and horror from the darkest recesses of the human imagination.