The Great Dick
And the Dysfunctional Demon
Winner of a Literary Titan Book Award.
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The Great Dick
Winner of a Literary Titan Book Award.
Wickedly funny dark humor supernatural thriller that blends a riveting murder mystery with an occult horror novel.
“What a page turner! Witty, literate, scary, sexy, and powerfully evocative.”—Gayle Lynds, New York Times bestselling author
It’s 1982. Steve Witowski, a failed songwriter on the run from the law, finds himself caught in a supernatural thriller after an apparently innocent act of heroism—saving a woman from a vicious assault by a seemingly unstoppable wino. The woman, Victoria, is just part of a mystery Steve can’t unravel. Even as he’s looting the decomposing dead for the secrets of a self-proclaimed sorcerer. Even as he plummets into a nightmare of fire and blood and murder. Even then, Steve remains certain the sorcerer’s spells, the occult rituals—the supposed demons and supernatural horror—are simply delusion and fantasy. Steve is wrong.
Victoria, who has just bought a dilapidated church with a haunting past, entangles Steve in a deadly game of dark magic and rituals. As,unknown to him, the demon grows desperate, Steve plunges deeper into a world of crypts, grave robbing, and long-forgotten secrets, all while trying to escape his own haunted past. But when the face of the man Steve killed appears on his arm, the line between reality and nightmare begins to blur.
This supernatural novel will leave you on the edge of your seat, with wickedly funny dark humor and, ultimately, pulse-pounding suspense, as Steve and Victoria navigate a twisted adventure full of occult horror, supernatural suspense, and shocking revelations.
“An enormous amount of fun. Wholly fresh and original. Wickedly funny . . . The Great Dickis a hot, sweaty, magic- and murder-infused rollercoaster of a story that takes you in every direction except the one you’re expecting . . . I loved it.”—David Moody, author of Hater and Autumn
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🧐What readers say about the book
The novel *The Great Dick* is an intense story that combines suspense, dark humor, and paranormal phenomena. Set in the 1980s, it follows the life of Steve Witowski, a failed songwriter fleeing his past who, after rescuing a woman from an attack, finds himself caught up in a plot filled with occult rituals, mysteries, and dark forces. Throughout the story, reality and nightmare begin to blur. It is an original and entertaining novel that keeps the reader on the edge of their seat, and I recommend it to anyone who enjoys suspense stories full of unexpected twists and a touch of dark humor.
Patty Cas
About The Author
Barry Maher
Barry Maher may be the only horror novelist who’s ever appeared in the pages of Funeral Service Insider. In his misspent youth, his articles were featured in perhaps a hundred different publications and, in order to eat, he held nearly that many different jobs. Sometimes he lived on the beach. Not in a house on the beach. On the beach. With the sand and the seagulls.
After a sentence with a Fortune 100 company, he started speaking professionally. He told stories to audiences across the country and around the world: his client-list a Who’s Who of multi-national corporations and large associations. You may have seen Barry on The Today Show, NBC Nightly News, CNN, CBS or CNBC, or read his nationally syndicated Slightly Off-Kilter newspaper column.
Awhile back, Barry lost the ability to tell time, courtesy of a baseball-size, cancerous, brain tumor. He awoke from having his skull cut open without the tumor, but with the story that became “The Great Dick: And the Dysfunctional Demon,” a darkly funny, supernatural thriller set in California in 1982. Early praise calls the book “wholly fresh and original,” “witty, literate, scary, sexy,” and “an absolute blast.”
On the downside, Maher’s actually been incarcerated twice. Once for not making a left hand turn out of a left hand turn lane, and once for aiding and abetting a loiterer. He’s deeply repentant.