Year of the Dogman

By Frank Holes Jr.

Book Overview

The action of Year of the Dogman by Frank Holes, Jr. centers around the weird sightings and dark introductions that occur every year in the deep woods of the Northern Midwest. In an extravagant... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1419672452
• ISBN13: 9781419672453
• Release Date: July 2007
• Publisher: Booksurge Publishing
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Read this book horror fans!

I read this entire book in one sitting. This well written, fast paced book set in northern MI will grab a hold of you from the first couple of pages and won't let you go until you are finished. Very suspenseful and yet not a "shock" horror with unnecessary gore. A++

Pretty Good!

This book is well written and keeps you interested through the end. Very good read.

awesome book

This book is great. author really took out time to have great knowledge of the information written about.

Ghastly Good Read

If you like scary books, buy this one. You will not regret it. Great read.

"Jaws" Hits the Woods

Was pleasantly surprised by this little book. It is essentially a fantasy/horror novel that sets itself apart from the typical Stephen King summer read by being NOT tediously overlong and overwritten. "Year of the Dogman" actually gets up and MOVES. It is a fast and absorbing read and, while it didn't really scare the "bejeebies" out of this reviewer, it did provide for some good atmospheric creeps and chills. In style, this work is far closer to Peter Benchley's "Jaws" than to anything from, say, King, Koontz, or James Herbert. So what are we dealing with here? Is this a werewolf type story or what? Actually, coming to the book "cold", so to speak, it might (or might not) be a bit confusing to the "uninitiated". Before you read it, you might want to visit the library and/or a local bookstore to get copies of Linda Godfrey's books "The Beast of Bray Road" and "Hunting the American Werewolf", or B.M. (Bart) Nunnelly's new "Strange Kentucky" (Whitechapel Press) and give them a read. A trip to You Tube to check out Steve Cook's video "The Legend" will also be quite helpful in "setting the stage"...AND the mood for this little literary adventure. The "dogman" is a term used in the paranormal-cryptozoological world (along with "manwolf', "mandog", and "wolfman") to describe creatures seen by many people over many generations here, yes, here in the modern-day world. These seem to be appearances (apparitions?) of things that resemble gigantic dogs or wolves and which have a disturbing habit of standing up and walking around on two legs. Some of them appear to people as bipedal quadrupeds...4-leggers walking on two...while others show up as creatures with humanlike torsos (shoulders included), human-like arms (and even legs), and even with human-like hands and feet. Nobody knows what these things are, but they range around Kentucky and Ohio, and Texas, and are thick as bees around a honey tree in Michigan and Wisconsin. American Indian legends view them as spirit beings("walkers between worlds"), or as "guardians" of hallowed places. The notion of their being "werewolves" in the classical sense of that word is little regarded and nobody around the country has been pursued by any lynch mobs convinced they were evil "changers". The phenomenon is just a nice, delicious mystery. Several years ago, in Michigan, a musician named Steve Cook decided to have some Halloween fun and decided to use the local "dogman" legend as the basis for a spooky song for the season. He recorded a ditty that was weird sounding, and with a narrative story-telling quality that made it seem everything in the song was true. It was expected this would have short-run local popularity, but the song took hold and has become a VERY enduring folk song in the Great Lakes area. Right up there with Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Now enter Frank Holes, Jr. This lit teacher (a great fan of "The Legend") decided to write a horror novel based both on the north country d