The Businessman

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These are notes for The Businessman: A Tale of Terror (1984), the first book in Thomas M. Disch's series of fantasy/horror novels now known as Supernatural Minnesota.

Major characters

  • Robert Glandier,
  • Giselle Glandier, Robert's ex-wie, deceased.
  • Joy-Ann Anker, Giselle's mother.
  • Bing Anker, Giselle's brother.
  • John Berryman, poet, deceased.
  • Adah Mencken, poet, deceased.

Chapter 1

The worms crawl in

Lines from one version of a folk rhyme about conditions in the grave, sometimes called "The Hearse Song".

Chapter 4

Some derelict on Hennepin Avenue

Hennepin runs through many neighborhoods in Minneapolis, so it's unclear where this derelict would be found.

Chapter 5

a corner lot on Calumet Avenue

The Roman matron who said that her children were her jewels

Fabulon

Chapter 6

M chalked on the back of his jacket

Chapter 7

The singer, Giselle McKenzie

Chapter 8

And These Thy Gifts by Claire Cullen

Chapter 9

The Magnapad is a magnetic potholder

Chapter 10

The fiction of John Norman

Chapter 11

I am going to kill you

Chapter 14

she soared upward in her freedom

Chapter 21

its cocoon of Munsingwear

Get yourself a bottle of Geritol