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Ken Greenhall


Born
in Detroit, Michigan, The United States
August 01, 1928

Died
January 01, 2014

Website

Genre
Horror, Historical Fiction, Fiction


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 cr ...more

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Elizabeth
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3.44 avg rating — 2,657 ratings — published 1976 — 18 editions
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Hell Hound
3.87 avg rating — 2,058 ratings — published 1977 — 16 editions
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Childgrave
3.54 avg rating — 310 ratings — published 1981 — 8 editions
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The Companion
3.47 avg rating — 78 ratings — published 1988 — 4 editions
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Death Chain
2.87 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1991 — 4 editions
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Elizabeth
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Lenoir
3.40 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions
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“Does everyone have to have an obsession?'
'Certainly. It's your choice of one that determines whether you're sane or not.”
― Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound
tags: obsession
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“Trust is the ultimate weakness and a kind of madness.... It may be inevitable that anyone who lives in the town, even I, must become afflicted with moments of trust. It is something one must accept. I have become vulnerable but I still have my courage and my physical strength to rely on.”
― Ken Greenhall, Hell Hound
tags: trust
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“I’m a person who hesitates before opening a letter; someone whose stomach tightens when the telephone rings. I always expect accusations, announcements of misfortune, the voices of the Furies. Sometimes my fears are justified, although it’s not always immediately apparent.”
― Ken Greenhall, Childgrave
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