Award-winning author Farmer's epic of SF-porn comprising of The Image of the Beast - An Exorcism, Ritual One and Blown - An Exorcism, Ritual Two. Private dick Herald Childe is sent a snuff movie of his partner being hideously murdered. His pursuit of the killers leads him into a waking nightmare of sexual brutality and supernatural bestiality as he becomes entangled with sex-starved she-ghosts, libidinous snake-women, a filthy human sow and a she-creature who gives birth to the limbless, ectoplasmic simulacrum child-killer Gilles de Rais.