THE M. D.: A HORROR STORY

by Thomas M. Disch

$35 · Offered by L. W. Currey

First edition

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991. Octavo, cloth-backed boards. First edition. The tale of William 'Billy' Michaels, a precocious child who matures into a brilliant and quite evil man … THE M. D. is an admirably ambitious horror fantasy with some of the scope, but with much more stylistic finesse and satirical bite, than King’s THE STAND and McCammon’s SWAN SONG. Disch’s knack for caustic social

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