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  • By: Ken Greenhall
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"What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were suddenly to feel a weight thrusting against the back of her legs? What if she were to lunge forward, grasping at the air, striking her thin skull against the edge of a stair? What would become of me if she were found unmoving at the bottom of the stairway?"

Such are the thoughts of Baxter, a sociopathic bull terrier on the hunt for the perfect master, as he contemplates the demise of his first victim. The basis for the acclaimed 1989 film Baxter, Ken Greenhall's utterly chilling and long-unobtainable Hell Hound (1977) has earned a reputation as a lost classic of horror fiction.

©2017 Ken Greenhall (P)2017 Valancourt Books, LLC

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Underwhelming and Bizarre

This book was the strangest I’ve ever read... almost every character, from the old lady, her daughter, Carl’s parents, Veronica’s Dad... they ALL behaved like sociopaths, not just the dog.

There were only about two characters with normal emotions who behaved like real people.

The book was filled with weird ideas, characters thinking bizarre things “I’d rather my daughter get pregnant than my spaniel”, and every single person in the story referred to Baxter as “it”.
I’ve never met a person who refers to their dog as “it”, instead of “he or she”.... let alone an entire town who calls a dog “it”....

Baxter was not scary, not very memorable, I was expecting something more from him being the protagonist, but really he was pretty forgettable.

Beware if you are a dog lover, you aren’t likely to enjoy this book. There are puppies and it ends badly. There is an unpleasant scene where Baxter ‘rapes’ another dog.

And then there is Carl. He is horrible and a little unsettling, but for a book supposedly about a crazy dog, this kid shows himself to be the real sociopath.

Do yourself a favour and if you want to read about a murderous dog, read Cujo.


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