The Deadly Percheron

John Franklin Bardin

Introduction by Jonathan Lethem

"Doctor, I'm losing my mind." So begins John Franklin Bardin's bold and unconventional crime thriller in which psychiatrist George Matthews' attempts to help his patient lead to a dead-end world of amnesia and social outcasts. The Deadly Percheron is at once a murder mystery, poignant love story and, most important, an unsettling and hallucinatory dark voyage into memory, madness, torture, and despair. Millipede Press is proud to present this classic novel, a combination of the detective story and the tale of psychological horror, in a new edition.

"The opening chapter defies description. Imagine one of those 1930s screwball comedies with the crazy situations, but substitute malevolence for humor."
-- Karl Edward Wagner

Special features of this edition:

• New introductory essay by Jonathan Lethem, award-winning writer
• The first chapters of "I Love You, Terribly", John Franklin Bardin¹s never-before-published final novel
• New design with entirely reset text

Cover image: Salvador Dali

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