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Kronos gave a great karate shout of "Ha!" which echoed through the air like a shot from a gun. He countered Hagen's first terrible lunge and their swords locked at the hilt.
Hagen, his face transfigured with hellish glee, fought like a maniac and yelled s he felt his sword sink into the soft muscles of Kronos's arm. Kronos dropped his weapon, but he backed swiftly and warily towards the stairs, and snatching up a rapier from the wall, plunged its point deep in Hagen's chest. It pierced his trunk and protruded from his back.
With red hatred in his eyes and his fangs protruding, Hagen stepped back a few paces and shouted in triumph, "You can't hurt me, Kronos! No-one can do that...!"
Hagen, his face transfigured with hellish glee, fought like a maniac and yelled s he felt his sword sink into the soft muscles of Kronos's arm. Kronos dropped his weapon, but he backed swiftly and warily towards the stairs, and snatching up a rapier from the wall, plunged its point deep in Hagen's chest. It pierced his trunk and protruded from his back.
With red hatred in his eyes and his fangs protruding, Hagen stepped back a few paces and shouted in triumph, "You can't hurt me, Kronos! No-one can do that...!"
128 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1972
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February 10, 2025
Bare-bones novelization of Hammer's Captain Kronos. No frills here, its a lightly fleshed out script - I think from an earlier version, certainly than the UK release:
Carla rides off with Kronos & Grost rather than staying behind. The men aren't killed in the fight at the bar - they come back later. The opening scene with the two girls is missing - we open on Kronos riding in. Some of the classic lines are cut - Kronos' leeing 'I'll have you' to Carla is cut - and we lose a fair bit of Mrs. Durward's dialogue at the end.
So there are a few discrepancies from the final theatrical version and its awfully rushed towards the end, but on the whole a faithful retelling of Captain Kronos with no frills.
Carla rides off with Kronos & Grost rather than staying behind. The men aren't killed in the fight at the bar - they come back later. The opening scene with the two girls is missing - we open on Kronos riding in. Some of the classic lines are cut - Kronos' leeing 'I'll have you' to Carla is cut - and we lose a fair bit of Mrs. Durward's dialogue at the end.
So there are a few discrepancies from the final theatrical version and its awfully rushed towards the end, but on the whole a faithful retelling of Captain Kronos with no frills.
July 7, 2025
A quick and enjoyable read, with barely a wasted word, I loved this just as much as I loved the film, which appears to have been released two years after this novelisation was published, oddly.
I picked up a collection of 1970s movie novelisations a few weeks ago, and reading them is currently my favourite thing.
Hammer, Amicus, Planet of the Apes books and some crime and westerns (including Clint Eastwood titles). Amongst others.
Absolute heaven.
I wish I could take a month off work and just read my books instead.
I picked up a collection of 1970s movie novelisations a few weeks ago, and reading them is currently my favourite thing.
Hammer, Amicus, Planet of the Apes books and some crime and westerns (including Clint Eastwood titles). Amongst others.
Absolute heaven.
I wish I could take a month off work and just read my books instead.
August 26, 2020
A faithful novelisation of the Hammer film, Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter, but there’s very little extra in the book, if you’ve already seen the movie.
March 11, 2014
This is a novelization of one of the last of the Hammer films of the 1970s. The North American title was "Captain Kronos, Vampire Hunter." It was supposed to be the first of a new series but poor box office cancelled those plans.
It is too bad because the it really is one of the best Hammer films, an underrated classic. Kronos and his hunchbacked companion arrive in a village to discover the young women are being stripped of their youth by a vampire. The original movie was written by Brian Clemens who created the 1960s cult TV series "The Avengers" which starred Patrick MacNee and his most famous companion Diana Rigg. Well worth tracking down the film.
It is too bad because the it really is one of the best Hammer films, an underrated classic. Kronos and his hunchbacked companion arrive in a village to discover the young women are being stripped of their youth by a vampire. The original movie was written by Brian Clemens who created the 1960s cult TV series "The Avengers" which starred Patrick MacNee and his most famous companion Diana Rigg. Well worth tracking down the film.
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