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The Black Dog of Zero

(2025)
(A book in the Trojan Donkey Chapbooks series)
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A story about time and terror.

"The castle clock struck twelve and each dull thunderclap sapped some of his energy. When the dozen were done but the echoes still lingered, he stopped in numb stillness. He was sure a large dog was watching him from the shadows, as eager for his despair as for a stick."

"Rhys Hughes seems almost the sum of our planet’s literature. He toys with convention. He makes the metaphysical political, the personal incredible and the comic hints at subtle pain. Few living fictioneers approach this chef’s sardonic confections, certainly not in English.’ — MICHAEL MOORCOCK

"If I said he was a Welsh writer who writes as though he has gone to school with the best writing from all over the world, I wonder if my compliment would just sound provincial. Hughes’ style, with all that means, is among the most beautiful I’ve encountered in several years.’ — SAMUEL R. DELANY

"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



Genre: Urban Fantasy

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