The Sound of His Horn - Hardcover

Sarban

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1872621430 ISBN 13: 9781872621432

Publisher: Tartan Pres, 1999

Synopsis

Alan Querdilion, a young naval lieutenant, is captured by the Germans and wakes up in a hospital bed - more than 100 years later. The Germans have won the war, and the Third Reich stretches from the Urals to the Atlantic. Non Aryans are bred as slaves. Deprived of speech and intelligence by the surgeon's knife, they serve their masters with their bodies. Count Hans von Hackelnberg, master of the Reich's forests, rules his domain with the iron fist of a feudal lord. His passion is hunting. At night the sound of his horn echoes eerily through the moonlit forest as the pack closes in on its prey. A pack of half-naked cat-girls, their hands sheathed in iron claws and their bellies starved of fresh meat. And their quarry, as Alan discovers too late, is ... himself Notice: This Book is published by Historical Books Limited (www.publicdomain.org.uk) as a Public Domain Book, if you have any inquiries, requests or need any help you can just send an email to publications@publicdomain.org.uk This book is found as a public domain and free book based on various online catalogs, if you think there are any problems regard copyright issues please contact us immediately via DMCA@publicdomain.org.uk

About this title

About the Author:

Sarban (1910-1989) was a pseudonym for John William Wall, a British writer and diplomat. He wrote several works of speculative fiction, including The Sound of His Horn and The Doll Maker.

Review:

''The gradually accelerating narrative, with its chain of horrors that close in on Querdilion with equal inevitability . . . strikes the reader hard with its nervous intensity, its power of excited visualization in detail, and its freshness. In its archaic associations, its evocation of pageantry, its reminder of the hunter's carefree gusto together with the terror of the hunted, it sums up the whole content and atmosphere of this novel, this strange combination of daydream and nightmare. So compelling is it that I shall always feel a slight twinge whenever I am reminded of the innocent English hunting song from which the title is taken.'' --Kingsley Amis, English author and critic

''Some many call it black poetry; some off-beat science fiction; some a plain marrow chiller . . . Of course, readers who go only for 'naturalistic' novels should stay away - - but devotees of Poe and Tennessee Williams should welcome the pseudonymous English novelist Sarban . . . His book is a stunning tour de force, a horror-thriller with depth.'' --New York Times Book Review

''No outline of mine can possibly convey the skill with which old man Sarban maintains suspense and builds up imagined fears upon unimagined horrors.'' --Daily Express (London)

''I frankly confess myself scared. Who 'Sarban' is I do not know, but I should not wish to take his imagination to bed with me. [It] would be indescribable, if only the author did not describe it with such conviction.'' --Observer

''I have never read anything more completely terrifying . . . A fine piece of imaginative writing.'' --Western Mail (Wales)

''Don't miss The Sound of His Horn . . . An imagination like that of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker . . . The quality of the writing is magnificent.'' --Melbourne Herald

''Extravagantly imaginative mystery and terror. Genuine Cold shivers. The book has a queer power to horrify in an inexplicable way.'' --Yorkshire Post

''Here is no straightforward piece of make-believe. It is terrifying, horrible, something that runs athwart the processes of human nature and fills the reader with a dreadful wonder.'' --John O'London's Weekly (London)

''The forests are alive with terror, and the story never loses its grip, despite its fantastic material.'' --Scotsman (Edinburgh)

''Persuasive.'' --Damon Francis Knight, Hugo Award-winning author

About this edition

• Publisher: Tartan Pres
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 1872621430
• ISBN 13: 9781872621432
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 187