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Hell Hound (1977)
Ken Greenhall
With a new introduction by Grady Hendrix

Book Description

‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?’

Such are the thoughts of Baxter, a sociopathic bull terrier on the hunt for the perfect master, as he contemplates the demise of his first victim. The basis for the acclaimed 1989 film Baxter, Ken Greenhall’s utterly chilling and long-unobtainable Hell Hound (1977) has earned a reputation as a lost classic of horror fiction. This first-ever reissue includes a new introduction by Grady Hendrix.


REVIEWS

‘An unsung classic of the bizarre that ranks with Crash and The Wasp Factory.’ - Fright.com

‘Deserves to be much more well-known and not simply as a “cult classic” ... I cannot recommend it highly enough!’ - Too Much Horror Fiction
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‘An author who has been criminally neglected by modern readers ... It’s time to start celebrating Ken Greenhall.’ - Jonathan Janz​



BOOK DETAILS
ISBN: 
1943910650
ISBN-13: 978-1943910656
$16.99 US, 150 pp.
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Published 2017

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AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY

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Ken Greenhall was born in Detroit in 1928, the son of immigrants from England. He graduated from high school at age 15, worked at a record store for a time, and was drafted into the military, serving in Germany. He earned his degree from Wayne State University and moved to New York, where he worked as an editor of reference books, first on the staff of the Encyclopedia Americana and later for the New Columbia Encyclopedia. Greenhall had a longtime interest in the supernatural and took leave from his job to write his first novel, Elizabeth (1976), a tale of witchcraft published under his mother’s maiden name, Jessica Hamilton. Several more novels followed, including Hell Hound (1977), which was published abroad as Baxter and adapted for a critically acclaimed 1989 French film under that title. Greenhall died in 2014.




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- Times Literary Supplement

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