Hellhounds of the Cosmos

By Clifford D. Simak

The paper had gone to press, graphically describing the latest of the many horrible events which had been enacted upon the Earth in the last six months. The headlines screamed that Six Corners, a little hamlet in Pennsylvania, had been wiped out by the Horror. Another front-page story told of a Terror in the Amazon Valley which had sent the natives down the river in babbling fear. Other stories told of deaths here and there, all attributable to the "Black Horror," as it was called.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wilder Publications, Inc.
• Release date: Aug 15, 2013
• ISBN: 9781617208119

Clifford D. Simak

During his fifty-five-year career, CLIFFORD D. SIMAK produced some of the most iconic science fiction stories ever written. Born in 1904 on a farm in southwestern Wisconsin, Simak got a job at a small-town newspaper in 1929 and eventually became news editor of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, writing fiction in his spare time. Simak was best known for the book City, a reaction to the horrors of World War II, and for his novel Way Station. In 1953 City was awarded the International Fantasy Award, and in following years, Simak won three Hugo Awards and a Nebula Award. In 1977 he became the third Grand Master of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, and before his death in 1988, he was named one of three inaugural winners of the Horror Writers Association’s Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement.

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Reviews for Hellhounds of the Cosmos

[hankiii · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

Great title: unfortunately, nothing but worm-eaten cheese throughout.

[maowangvater · Rating: 4 out of 5 stars]

For six months Earth has been under attack from scarcely visible monsters. At first it was small rural communities that were wiped out, but when a newspaper editor gets the word that "The Horror is attacking London in force. … There are thousands of them and they have completely surrounded the city. All roads are blocked.” He sends reporter Harry Woods to interview Dr. Silas White, a man who claims to know something about this mysterious enemy.At first, Woods is taken aback by White’s strangely unique ideas about evolution and extra dimensions. But when White demonstrates an apparatus that transforms a three-dimensional dog into a four-dimensional being and brings back it back again alive and whole, Woods is convinced. Convinced that this is an invasion of four-dimensional beings and that the only way to stop them is to transform humans into a four-dimensional force to counterattack. So, Woods joins another ninety-eight volunteers as they sally forth “to invade the fourth-dimensional plane of these hellhounds.”From here on it’s a slugfest, a brawl between giants in an alien landscape, where the only thing exceeding the punches thrown are the adjectives used to describe them. And reader Chenevert exuberantly narrates every whiz-bang wallop of the fight with the gusto it deserves.