After recovering "memories" of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, substitute teacher Diana Turney discovers that she herself possesses an uncanny ability to transform people into their totemic animals, as well as become a conduit for her father's long dormant but evil energies
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Thomas M. Disch is the author of twelve previous novels, including such classic works of science fiction as <b>Camp Concentration</b> and <b>334</b>, both of which have been reissued in Vintage paperback. He lives in Manhattan and in Sullivan County, New York.
t;b>The Businessman</b>, <b>The M.D.</b>, and <b>The Priest</b>, Thomas M. Disch, heralded by <i>Newsweek</i> as "the most formidably gifted unfamous American writer," now continues his masterful series of horror-fantasy novels set in his own "supernatural Minnesota."<br><br>At the very moment substitute teacher Diana Turney recovers memories of sexual abuse at the hands of her father, she finds herself weilding a potent brand of witchcraft: the Circe-like ability to turn people into their totemic animals. But once she unleashes these exhilarating matamorphoses on the citizens of the small hamlet of Leech Lake, she learns that she has not been given these powers so much as she has been given to them; that others, including her enemies, have similar gifts; that she has become the conduit of her ghastly father's evil energies, long dormant but now sprung to life; and that despite her unearthly gifts, escape this time might prove impossible.<br><br>A w
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