The Terrible Fives: With the essay My Flight to Canada

Ishmael Reed continues his forty-year prophetic book project, The Terribles. Characters introduced in The Terrible Twos (1982) and The Terrible Threes (1989) are back. They include Rev. Clement Jones, JFK, Jr. who is actually Hobbomock, the Quinnipiac shape-shifter, Pres. Hatch, Termite Control, whose real name is Luke Lockett.

A Necrophiliac and an Odin worshipper, Termite Control (Lockett), is the leading presidential candidate. With the decline of the Christian Church in America, are Ame...