Uhmm… yipes? I… I don’t see a horn Mr, er, Ms Sarban? My what skinny little fingers you have Mr… uh, what are you? And why has your head sprung a leak? I do like your shiny red nails, er, claws? Ah what the hell! The only thing I know for sure is that this fails the bus test. Ewww and just… ewww.
The book doesn’t give the artist’s name I’m afraid, but it does have an introduction by Kingsley Amis, which gives it a certain literary je ne sais quoi. It’s still about Nazis and cats though.
I tend to skip this one if it turns upas a random cover because it’s freakish and disturbing, but it seems that it’s appropriate to the book in every way—weird and disturbing and has semi-humanised cats—and that the book is actually good, at least if for you “good” and “nightmarish” are not mutually exclusive: http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/sound_of_his_horn.html.
Incidentally, “Sarban” was the pen-name of John William Wall, a British diplomat.
Who knew cats could get road rage? (I mean, rage itself, of course! But cats are usually too freaked out in a car in my experience to be angry). Maybe the sound of his horn drove the cat to apoplexy.
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March 31st, 2015 at 10:50 am
Uhmm… yipes? I… I don’t see a horn Mr, er, Ms Sarban? My what skinny little fingers you have Mr… uh, what are you? And why has your head sprung a leak? I do like your shiny red nails, er, claws? Ah what the hell! The only thing I know for sure is that this fails the bus test. Ewww and just… ewww.
March 31st, 2015 at 11:08 am
Ah, The Sound of his Horn, a once classic now forgotten. Who’s to blame for that? 8 out of 10 readers say it’s Count Catula on the cover!
March 31st, 2015 at 11:55 am
Felicia gets upset by loud noises.
March 31st, 2015 at 12:00 pm
The Most Dangerous Game, but targeted at the furry audience.
March 31st, 2015 at 1:41 pm
He’s a real hep cat who grooves to the sound of that white hot jazz being played uptown.
March 31st, 2015 at 3:36 pm
There’s going to be sound alright if the crazed catwoman gets her claws near any man’s horn.
March 31st, 2015 at 6:49 pm
Oh my GOSH. This is so freakishly bizarre.
What depraved madman decided to capitalize the ‘s’ in ‘his’?!??
April 1st, 2015 at 8:34 am
The book doesn’t give the artist’s name I’m afraid, but it does have an introduction by Kingsley Amis, which gives it a certain literary je ne sais quoi. It’s still about Nazis and cats though.
April 6th, 2015 at 11:41 am
‘Tonight I dine at Witch World…
April 7th, 2015 at 10:10 am
Has any font ever clashed so horribly with an image?
April 11th, 2015 at 8:14 pm
It’s a good thing Sarban never got into a fight with Christabel for Most Pretentious Single Name…
January 4th, 2016 at 12:56 am
She died alone with a dozen slightly overweight neurotic ladies in her apartment.
January 4th, 2016 at 2:08 pm
How mean can Amy Schumer’s stand-up act be? THIS mean.
March 6th, 2017 at 2:17 am
‘The sound of his horn.’ MROWRRR!
September 19th, 2018 at 5:35 am
I tend to skip this one if it turns upas a random cover because it’s freakish and disturbing, but it seems that it’s appropriate to the book in every way—weird and disturbing and has semi-humanised cats—and that the book is actually good, at least if for you “good” and “nightmarish” are not mutually exclusive: http://www.trashfiction.co.uk/sound_of_his_horn.html.
Incidentally, “Sarban” was the pen-name of John William Wall, a British diplomat.
April 17th, 2022 at 8:33 pm
Who knew cats could get road rage? (I mean, rage itself, of course! But cats are usually too freaked out in a car in my experience to be angry). Maybe the sound of his horn drove the cat to apoplexy.