Maybe they looked good in 1999, but they haven’t aged very well. The characters are nicely developed, and apart from the gory, disgusting bits, there’s actually some genuinely creepy stuff going on in here involving an abandoned hospice for dying priests and the ghosts of two of the sadistic nuns that used to work there.Įach chapter has a computer generated illustration. I knew this book was going to be gross, but I wasn’t expecting it to be as entertaining as it is. Maybe ‘poo-eating’ could have been added to that list too. Brain-Eating…” That’s a pretty concise way of summing it up. The tagline on the back cover reads “Rape. There’s one part where a redneck empties a pensioner’s colostomy bag over her recently exposed brains, just for the fun of it. The Bighead avoids this by taking an almost identical premise but pumping it absolutely chock-full of obscene, disgusting, perverse acts of depravity. That book was awful because it was boring. I reviewed a book called Blood Rite a few months ago that was also about a girl trapped in the woods with violent redneck monsters. There’s an video of Lee online in which he notes that many horror stories have a similar premise. Unfortunately, their trip is interrupted by a rampaging backwoods mutant named the Bighead. This is the story of two pretty girls from the big city coming to visit one of their aunts in the countryside. Honestly, if I saw someone reading this book on the bus, I’d probably get off at a different stop from them. It’s the kind of thing that you’ll be reading and then start to think “What kind of sick perverts read this stuff?”, only to realise that you yourself belong to that group of sick perverts. The ordeals faced by the characters in this book are so repulsive that the reader suffers along with them.
I had to put it down after certain chapters and wait a while before I read more. After reading it, I can confirm that it is truly disgusting. Edward Lee’s The Bighead has a reputation for being one of the grossest books ever written.
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