Sarban: The Sound of His Horn

Tartarus Press

publishers

Ebook only

Ebook: £4.99

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The Sound of His Horn

by

Sarban

The Sound of His Horn is a classic novel of the uncanny. Alan Querdillion escapes a prisoner of war camp only to find himself in an alternative future in which the Nazis have won the Second World War. Against a sylvan backdrop the legend of the Wild Huntsman is revived and genetic experiments have created strange hybrids. Humans are hunted for game, haunted by the sound of the Huntsman's horn.

First published by Peter Davies in 1952, it is offered here as an ebook only.

Reviews

‘Some many call it black poetry; some off-beat science-fiction; some a plain marrow-chiller... Of course, readers who go only for ‘naturalistic’ novels should stay away—but devotees of Poe and Tennessee Williams should welcome the pseudonymous English novelist Sarban... His book is a stunning tour de force, a horror-thriller with depth.’ The New York Times Book Review

‘This strange combination of daydream and nightmare.’ Kingsley Amis

‘I frankly confess myself scared. Who “Sarban” is, I do not know; but I should not wish to take his imagination to bed with me. [It] would be indescribable, if only the author did not describe it with such conviction.’ The Observer

‘Sarban is one of the old weird authentics. No outline of mine can possibly convey the skill with which old man Sarban maintains suspense and builds up imagined fears upon unimagined horrors.’ Daily Express

‘Sarban has an imagination as grandiloquent, as exfoliatory as that of Beckford, the author of Vathek... Here is no straightforward piece of make-believe. It is terrifying, horrible, something that runs athwart the processes of human nature and fills the reader with a dreadful wonder.’ John O’ London’s Weekly