# Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind

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- Authors: [Philip José Farmer](https://www.bookquiver.com/philip-jose-farmer)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2013-06-24

## Description

In Philip Jose Farmers incredible sequel to The Image of the Beast, Herald Childe continues what started as a murder case - a very gruesome one - but which has now become a struggle against the strange and deadly beings who have taken his wife, who threaten his manhood and threaten mankind itself. His seems a hopeless quest. He is fighting not people but inhuman, unhuman monster from another universe. They take grotesque physical forms, they indulge cruel whims, and they are sex-mad. There is Vivienne, amazingly beautiful, who used to be Joan of Arc. But she has false teeth and she comes literally to pieces. Her lover is a snake-like horror whose needle teeth drip aphrodisiac venom. There is Count Igescu, a real live vampire. And these three are surrounded by a grisly crowd of bizarre aliens, characters in a science fiction nightmare. But for Childe there is to be no waking up: though no one else will believe him, he knows this is for real...

## Editions

### Blown: or Sketches Among the Ruins of My Mind

- Publisher: gateway
- Medium: ebook
- ISBN: 978-05-7511-972-7
- Published: 2013-06-24
- Language: en_GB