A review by gls_merch
The Bighead, by Edward Lee

3.5

Just pages into reading The Bighead, Edward Lee punches you in the face with unspeakable acts of sex and violence. For many, that will be enough excuse to never open the pages again. For those who press onwards, you will encounter a novel in the gothic horror tradition. The female heroines arrives in a remote location complete with an abandoned abbey (covered up by the Catholic church) and a local legend about a man-child monster with a watermelon-sized noggin. Punctuated with numerous scenes of the grotesque, the multiple storylines culminate in a manic supernatural conclusion. By the end, I had chuckle as I came to the realization that Mr. Lee clearly had his tongue firmly planted in cheek the whole time.