![]() a most promising debut.” - San Diego Union “ grisly shocker, understated for the most part but carrying the impact of a fist to the stomach. This new edition features an introduction by the author. Higgs's The Happy Man (1985) reveals the nightmare underside of the American dream and brilliantly echoes the Gothic horror tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl. and begins to see the beauty of life.įrom its profoundly unsettling first pages, Eric C. Soon Ripley becomes caught up in an accelerating maelstrom of sex, drugs, violence, and ghastly, unimaginable rites. Marsh, a connoisseur of the arts, high-powered lawyer, model husband and father, and effortless seducer of women, is so supremely alive that Ripley finds himself irresistibly drawn to him.īut after Marsh's arrival, local girls begin to vanish, marriages end violently, nights are split with endless, desperate screams, and horribly mutilated corpses are found. But it isn't until Ruskin Marsh moves in next door that Ripley realizes how passionless his life really is. ![]() ![]() Charles Ripley has a good job as an engineer, a pretty wife, and an expensive house in a fashionable San Diego suburb. ![]()
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