5/12/2023 0 Comments The M.D by Thomas M. Disch![]() ![]() By the author of the children’s fantasy The Brave Little Toaster and several science fiction works, this lengthy adult entertainment is well suited for summer weekend reading" - Library Journal ![]() A multitude of major and supporting characters, a good many subplots, plus much dark and wicked humor all contribute to the tale’s success. Spanning the early 1970s through 1999, this well-written horror novel takes Billy from childhood innocence and casual cruelty to adult greed and calculated evil…. "Endowed with the power to heal or destroy by the Roman god Mercury, Minnesota grade schooler Billy Michaels embarks on a strange lifelong journey. "Resonates with surprise and menace." - USA Today "Each new page, like an electric eel, is poised to shock." - Los Angeles Times "A truly stunning work of supernatural horror." - San Francisco Chronicle A superlative chiller with a surprisingly thought-provoking symbolic subtext and a remarkably evocative, often brilliant, style." - Washington Post ![]() "An extraordinary feat of the imagination…. is surely his magnum opus." - Stephen King Thomas Disch has been writing wonderful tales of imagination for years now-stories that sometimes amuse, sometimes sting, sometimes horrify, and sometimes manage to do all three at the same time-but The M.D. "Simply one of the best novels of horror-fantasy I’ve ever read. ![]()
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