These 2 inbred hicks drive across the land, defiling and disemboweling anyone they meet in increasingly disgusting (but actually also tedious) ways. Which neatly brings me on to the worst part of the novel, the chapters with Dicky and Balls in them. Alexander teams up with Jerrica to try to find the link between a deserted local Abbey and the mysterious legend of the Bighead the interaction between these 2 is great, and I wish the novel had been solely focused on them as it would have been far better that way. The chapters with priest Alexander are easily the best, as he struggles with his faith and experiences dark dreams about sadistic nuns which add a genuinely chilling air to the novel.
These storylines criss cross throughout the novel and as things become more intense, we discover that they all have hidden secrets. Over the course of its 350+ pages (a lengthy novel by Lee's standards), the story is told from the view points of several characters rogue priest Alexander, sex addict Jerrica, the 2 white trash hillbillies Dicky and Balls, mysterious Aunt Annie, and the titular deformed monstrosity that is the Bighead. lots and lots of sex, the majority of it non consensual and depraved. And of course there's an absolute tonne of gore, and sex. and of course with this being Edward Lee, there's an overload of his usual white trash vulgarity. The Bighead has the feel old an old school slasher movie, with its mutant killer and its small town with a local legend set up. Sure it's a gross and sick book, but hey you knew that already or you wouldn't be reading an Amazon review of an Edward Lee book would you? Well maybe I'm slightly desensitised after reading other gut-puking novels by Lee like Brain Cheese Buffet, Header 2 and The Pig, but I didn't find it massively more gross than his other output. Described by author and renouned sicko Edward Lee as his attempt to write a "monster in the woods novel", The Bighead has quite the reputation, to the extent that I've heard it described as unreadable and the sickest book ever.
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