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The Hounds of Hell
THE HOUNDS OF HELL... Written by acclaimed writers RON FORTIER ("Brother Grim", "Green Hornet", and "Terminator") and GORDON LINZNER, this is the long-awaited meeting of THE MOON MAN and DOCTOR SATAN! This hero and villain from the old pulp magazines finally cross paths in a full-length novel of thrilling adventure and fantastic perils! This is a book that no pulp fan can be without, a definite collector's item! Illustrated by Rob Davis ("Brother Grim", "Star Trek") and Bradley Walton, with a stunning wrap-around cover painting by Thomas Floyd ("Brother Grim", "Captain Spectre") this is pulp fiction at it's finest... This edition also includes 2 short stories by Ron "Lady Arcane - Mistress of Magic" and "Angel In His Sights" to round out this wonderful book!
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First published February 15, 2013
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August 21, 2024
In Ron Fortier's seminal pastiche, Paul Ernst's pulp villain, Dr. Satan has come to Great City to extort millions lest he drive all the dogs in the city into a murderous frenzy. Dr. Satan's arch nemesis, Ascott Keane is there to stop him, with an able assist from Frederick C. Davis' hero, The Moon Man. Fortier gets all the heroes and villains pitch perfect. The action is excellent. The only flaw is some distractingly poor editing: "shit" for "suit," "wench" for "winch," etc. There are also confusing grammar mistakes. Minor flaws, but since this book was first published nearly two decades ago, you'd think there was ample time to clean it up.
A companion story concerns Miss Fury and her loyal French Canadian werewolf aide, Donat Cartier, battling a sinister cult in the story "Fury in Vermont." This is not the Golden Age comic strip heroine in the black voodoo-powered catsuit but a six-foot-tall Scandinavian/Japanese adventuress who wields twin platinum-plated .4s and has a zeppelin named the Valkyrie. I'd like to see more of her adventures.
In his background afterword, Fortier labels The Hounds of Hell as the start of the whole New Pulp genre. In the forward, Barry Reese says that it inspired him to enter the micro-genre (Reese also integrates Dr. Satan and Keane into his Peregrine series as well).
A companion story concerns Miss Fury and her loyal French Canadian werewolf aide, Donat Cartier, battling a sinister cult in the story "Fury in Vermont." This is not the Golden Age comic strip heroine in the black voodoo-powered catsuit but a six-foot-tall Scandinavian/Japanese adventuress who wields twin platinum-plated .4s and has a zeppelin named the Valkyrie. I'd like to see more of her adventures.
In his background afterword, Fortier labels The Hounds of Hell as the start of the whole New Pulp genre. In the forward, Barry Reese says that it inspired him to enter the micro-genre (Reese also integrates Dr. Satan and Keane into his Peregrine series as well).
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