Craig Loftin
This is a campy pulp novel from the king of bad culture and reputed worst filmmaker of all-time. It was first published in 1967. This novel is sort of a fantasy on his famously rotten movie, Glen or Glenda? As in the movie, the main character shifts between being Glen and Glenda, the poster child of tortured, misunderstood transvesticism of postwar America. The novel is told mostly as a flashback — you see, Glen is about to be put to death in the electric chair, and his final request is that he be executed as “Glenda,” in his favorite angora sweater of course. The story he tells takes the reader deep into the perverse sordid underbelly of Hollywood, involving the mob, starlets, and cheap motels.
Death of a Transvestite is a sequel to Wood's Killer in Drag.
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