Bill Bones was a normal human being until he studied under a Mojave Shaman and was transformed into a man-dog called The Growl. Now, driven by a keen sense of justice, The Growl is on the hunt for the villains who killed his boss, newspaperman Ridley Smart ... and he’ll stop at nothing!
Crossing the deserts and forests of the American continent, The Growl searches for the men he must kill. Along the way he meets more beast-men, more magicians, the avenger Jalamity Kane who is seeking to rid the world of the beast menace, and other dangerous characters, from the artificial to the wild, from the robotic to the demonic.
In the deft hands of Rhys Hughes, this inventive tale becomes a masterpiece of twists and turns ... exploring and questioning our definitions of humanity, discovering the very meaning of what life and reality might be.
‘Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet's literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible.’ MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"Quirky and fantastic and sometimes quite twisted, Rhys Hughes is a treat for those in the mood for something utterly different." — ELLEN DATLOW
"Rhys Hughes is an accomplished player with words, plots, effects, relationships, sensibilities; you name it, Hughes tries to stand it on its head. More often than seems attributable to mere chance, he succeeds." — ED BRYANT, LOCUS
"Dazzling prose. Put your feet up and dip in. Life will never seem quite the same again." — THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE
"I wore throughout the undisplaceable, unsequelchable rictus of a grin of both delight and amazement." — MICHAEL BISHOP
"The incredible richness of language, the inexhaustible array of puns, double entendres, weird metaphors, non-lexical use of words, and original turns of phrase... Rhys Hughes is essentially an absurdist humorist, though often of a peculiarly black, tricky, and sometimes bloody sort. Much of his work is travesty, drawing for substance on other works, which he uses as a basis for destructive humor, for reinterpretation in a different mode, or as a starting point for his own work. This statement is not meant in disparagement, for Hughes's new versions are highly original in conception and often brilliant." — SUPERNATURAL FICTION WRITERS (SCRIBNERS)
"Rhys Hughes is one of the most wildly inventive talents we are graced with today." — ALL HALLOWS
“It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists. ” — JEFF VANDERMEER
"Every Hughes story implies much, served with wit and whimsy and word-relish, high spirits and bittersweet twists." — IAN WATSON
"A dazzling disintegration of the reality principle. A rite of passage to the greater world beyond common sense. Raises the bar on profundity and sets a comic standard for the tragic limits of our human experience. Like Beckett on nitrous oxide. Like Kafka with a brighter sense of humor." — A A ATTANASIO
Genre: Cozy Mystery
Crossing the deserts and forests of the American continent, The Growl searches for the men he must kill. Along the way he meets more beast-men, more magicians, the avenger Jalamity Kane who is seeking to rid the world of the beast menace, and other dangerous characters, from the artificial to the wild, from the robotic to the demonic.
In the deft hands of Rhys Hughes, this inventive tale becomes a masterpiece of twists and turns ... exploring and questioning our definitions of humanity, discovering the very meaning of what life and reality might be.
‘Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet's literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible.’ MICHAEL MOORCOCK
"Quirky and fantastic and sometimes quite twisted, Rhys Hughes is a treat for those in the mood for something utterly different." — ELLEN DATLOW
"Rhys Hughes is an accomplished player with words, plots, effects, relationships, sensibilities; you name it, Hughes tries to stand it on its head. More often than seems attributable to mere chance, he succeeds." — ED BRYANT, LOCUS
"Dazzling prose. Put your feet up and dip in. Life will never seem quite the same again." — THE THIRD ALTERNATIVE
"I wore throughout the undisplaceable, unsequelchable rictus of a grin of both delight and amazement." — MICHAEL BISHOP
"The incredible richness of language, the inexhaustible array of puns, double entendres, weird metaphors, non-lexical use of words, and original turns of phrase... Rhys Hughes is essentially an absurdist humorist, though often of a peculiarly black, tricky, and sometimes bloody sort. Much of his work is travesty, drawing for substance on other works, which he uses as a basis for destructive humor, for reinterpretation in a different mode, or as a starting point for his own work. This statement is not meant in disparagement, for Hughes's new versions are highly original in conception and often brilliant." — SUPERNATURAL FICTION WRITERS (SCRIBNERS)
"Rhys Hughes is one of the most wildly inventive talents we are graced with today." — ALL HALLOWS
“It’s a crime that Rhys Hughes is not as widely known as Italo Calvino and other writers of that stature. Brilliantly written and conceived, Hughes’ fiction has few parallels anywhere in the world. In some alternate universe with a better sense of justice, his work triumphantly parades across all bestseller lists. ” — JEFF VANDERMEER
"Every Hughes story implies much, served with wit and whimsy and word-relish, high spirits and bittersweet twists." — IAN WATSON
"A dazzling disintegration of the reality principle. A rite of passage to the greater world beyond common sense. Raises the bar on profundity and sets a comic standard for the tragic limits of our human experience. Like Beckett on nitrous oxide. Like Kafka with a brighter sense of humor." — A A ATTANASIO
Genre: Cozy Mystery
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