First Publication: 1993
Reissue: October 2014
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Source: Publisher in exchange for a honest review.
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As readers of this blog know, Roger Zelazny is one of my favorite writers. When the Chicago Review Press offered me a copy of one of his novels that I never read, I could not turn it down. "A Night in Lonesome October" was the last novel he wrote. Later a couple of collaborations appeared but this seems to be the last one he finished before his death. He was revisiting a basic concept (a gate opening to another world) he used in "Madwand" but that is the end of the similarities. Zelazny tells the story in the first-person which is one of his favorite methods. "First person" might be the wrong phrase since the narrator is Snuff, the dog that appears on the cover. This edition also contains 33 illustrations by Gahan Wilson.
