The Businessman: A Tale of Terror

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The Businessman presents the sinister tale of Bob Glandier, a morally repulsive executive who murders his estranged wife and attempts to go back to business as usual, until she returns to set about arranging his divine retribution. With help from her dead mother and the ghost of poet John Berryman - thoroughly bored of suburban seances and all too eager to lend a hand - Giselle undertakes the elaborate, righteous, and wickedly amusing haunting of her husband.

Thomas M. Disch (1940-2008) was a best-selling and prolific American science fiction writer and poet. He won several awards, including the Hugo Award for Best Non-Fiction Book in 1999. John Crowley is the author of numerous books, including Little, Big, which received the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.

"The Businessman is an entertaining nightmare out of Thomas Berger and Stephen King." --Time "Each of the sixty short chapters of The Businessman is a tour de force." --Times Literary Supplement "Equal measures of terror and whimsy, spookery and spoof . . . Disch puts his storytelling skills squarely at the service of a highly charged moral vision, without ever reneging on his promise to dazzle and entertain us." --Newsweek