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Charles Ripley has a good job as an engineer, a pretty wife, and a pricey house in a fashionable NORTH PARK suburb. Nonetheless it isn't until Ruskin Marsh goes in next door that Ripley realizes how passionless his life really is. Marsh, a connoisseur of the arts, high-powered lawyer, model partner and dad, and easy seducer of women, is so supremely alive that Ripley discovers himself irresistibly attracted to him. But after Marsh's entrance, local girls start to vanish, relationships end violently, times are divide with endless, eager screams, and horribly mutilated corpses are located. Soon, Ripley becomes caught up within an accelerating maelstrom of making love, drugs, violence, and ghastly, unimaginable rites...and commences to see the beauty of life. From its profoundly unsettling first web pages, Eric C. Higgs's The Happy Man (1985) reveals the problem underside of the North american goal and brilliantly echoes the Gothic horror tradition of Edgar Allan Poe and Roald Dahl. "The Happy Man is an essential '80s horror read: smart, sharpened, unforgiving, unlike anything else in the genre." - Too Much Horror Fiction "[A] grisly shocker, understated for the most part but carrying the impact of a fist to the abdominal...a most promising debut." - San Diego Union "A carefully engrossing Gothic horror history." - South Bend Tribune
