Harry Ca'Nab: The devils own huntsman

By: Paul Taylor

In seventeenth-century England, on the uneasy border between south Birmingham and rural Worcestershire, a figure rides out of legend and into grim reality. Harry Ca'Nab - recruited by the Devil himself - stalks a fiercely religious parish for those who have slipped into sin. With a hell-forged ledger in hand and a colossal black bull beneath him, he roams the Lickey Hills, Rubery, Rednal, Frankley, and the scattered hamlets beyond, shadowed always by the silent Gabriel Hounds.

Centuries later, clergymen John Henry Newman and Ambrose St John uncover forgotten documents and parish records that hint the old stories were more than superstition. As they follow Harry's trail, a cast of modern witnesses emerges: Adele, a schoolteacher who knows more folklore than she lets on; Simon Johnson, the village butcher at the centre of local life; and Mark Carter, the blacksmith whose family once claimed to see the bull-rider at the Old Rose and Crown.

Rooted in real West Midlands locations and shaped by a myth whispered through generations, this story weaves history, folklore, and Myth into a tale about how legends are born - and what happens when they refuse to stay buried.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GW6SFP35
• ISBN13: 9798254194903
• Release Date: April 2026
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 353 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"