Hellhounds

By David Sandner and Jacob Weisman

In this sequel to the novelette Mingus Fingers, authors David Sandner and Jacob Weisman follow Kenny, a talented musician who learned from jazz great Charles Mingus how to "play in the soul." Kenny has always had an affinity for rabbits and butterflies, believing that butterflies are broken souls waiting to return.

​When Kenny goes missing, his brother searches for him at a crossroad and an old speakeasy, where the cold, dark shadows of spirit and music lead him to a musician who may know if Kenny is alive . . . or dead. Kenny's brother must put his trust in his belief that the music of the living may be the only way to transform and bring back a spirit of the dead.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Fairwood Press
• Release date: Nov 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201631666

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Contents

HELLHOUNDS

ABOUT THE AUTHORS

HELLHOUNDS

DAVID

SANDNER

& JACOB

WEISMAN

FAIRWOOD PRESS

Bonney Lake, WA

Praise for Hellhounds:

"Hellhounds is an evocative, richly detailed portrait of the weird, haunted heart of mid-20th-century America: the family ties that filled it, and the music that matched it beat for beat. Here’s hoping for more stories in this already memorable series."

— F. Brett Cox, author of The End of All Our Exploring

"At turns stunningly poetic, ghostly nostalgic, and darkly soul-chilling, Hellhounds is a hell of a good story. And no one in the genre merges music and slipstream better than these two veterans of speculative fiction, whose collaborative genius is fully on display in this spooky, unforgettable novelette about brotherly love, butterflies and the blues. Read this one and let them take you to the land of shadows . . . maybe you won’t want to come back."

—Michael Arnzen, author of Grave Markings

praise for Mingus Fingers:

David Sandner & Jacob Weisman—blend their voices beautifully into an organic whole that reminds me of the tonality of John Kessel or Karen Joy Fowler.

— Locus

A graceful and touching portrayal of a man with the odds loaded against him who gives his all for a child who has a shot at something more than he ever had.

— Michael Swanwick, author of Surplus

A stroll through jazz, boxing, the creative fire, and the prices of all three. Subtle, profound, and moving.

— Kij Johnson, author of The River Bank

I loved it so much that a few weeks after reading it I went back and read it again.

—Charles de Lint, Fantasy & Science Fiction

Books by David Sandner

Fiction

Mingus Fingers

Non-fiction

The Fantastic Sublime: Romanticism and

Transcendence in Nineteenth-century

Children’s Fantasy Literature

Critical Discourses of the Fantastic,

1712-1831

As Editor

Fantastic Literature: A Critical Reader

The Treasury of the Fantastic

(co-edited with Jacob Weisman)

Philip K. Dick: Essays of the Here and Now

Books by Jacob Weisman

Fiction

Mingus Fingers

As Editor

The Sword & Sorcery Anthology

(co-edited with David G. Hartwell)

The Treasury of the Fantastic

(co-edited with David Sandner)

Invaders: 22 Stories From the Outer

Limits of Literature

The New Voices of Fantasy

(co-edited with Peter S, Beagle)

The Unicorn Anthology

(co-edited with Peter S, Beagle)

The New Voices of Science Fiction

(co-edited with Hannu Rajaniemi)

HELLHOUNDS

A Fairwood Press Book

Copyright © 2022

by David Sandner & Jacob Weisman

All Rights Reserved

No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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ISBN: 978-1-958880-02-9

Fairwood Press First Edition:

November 2022

Also available in ebook

Cover image © Tom Canty

Cover and book design by Patrick Swenson

Printed in the United States of America

I got to keep movin’

Blues fallin’ down like hail

—Robert Johnson

Hellhounds On My Trail

To Leadbelly, Muddy Waters, Lightning Hopkins, and Mississippi Fred McDowell,