The Priest: A Gothic Romance

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At the center of The Priest is Father Patrick Bryce, a Catholic priest with a pedophile past. He spent time at a church-run retreat for priests of his type and returned "rehabilitated" and even better equipped to keep his vice active and hidden. That is, until the blackmail begins, and each demand tops the next. Fiendishly comic and darkly hypnotic, The Priest is a spellbinding work that builds at breakneck speed to its gripping, gruesome, and eerily romantic finale.

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"A novel of considerable originality." --New York Times
"Nothing is sacred in The Priest, Thomas Disch's nefarious novel about madness and guilt, perversion and damnation, sin and shenanigans. What a show Disch puts on." --San Francisco Chronicle
"Wickedly funny. If the Roman Catholic Church still issued its Index of banned books, this one would certainly find its way onto it." --Library Journal

Author Bio

Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) was a best-selling and prolific American science fiction writer and poet. He won several awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 1999.
Gregory Feeley is the author of many novellas and short stories, as well as the novel Arabian Wine.