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Night Howl
Дата публикации: 24-06-2026 10:00:00
Andrew Neiderman is probably best known for his 19th career novel, The Devil's Advocate, which was adapted into a film in 1997 starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. He authored over 100 novels, mostly of the horror and suspense genre. We've reviewed a couple of them, Someone's Watching (1983) and Pin (1981), so I was anxious to get back to his vintage horror work. I decided to try the killer-dog formula and tracked down Night Howl, published by Pocket in 1986.The book is set in upstate New York. A German Shepherd has escaped a secret government laboratory that specializes in biological and chemical weapons and genetic engineering. It's a catch-all for a special project providing super-intelligence to dogs. While this portion of the book is a bit cloudy, apparently, part of the genes injected into this dog came from the prison system. So, the pooch – named Phantom – is a criminal mastermind trapped in a dog's body. It's like the killer trapped in the plastic shell of the Chucky doll in those Child's Play films and shows. Phantom has a run-in with the Kaufmans, an ordinary family of peaceful suburbanites, while also being hunted by the government operatives. Neiderman uses varying perspectives to present the story; this includes all of the doggy thoughts of Phantom himself – food, mating, kill!As you can tell from the tone, I really hated this book. Night Howl is nearly 300-pages of absolute nothingness. Perhaps it was a quick concept pitched to Neiderman by a Cujo-hungry agent or editor, or simply an unenthusiastic “when animals attack” idea that the author wanted his claws in. There are some interesting kills, a few effective pages of a home-invasion, and a complete location swerve as the action moves to New York City faster than you can say “Jason Takes Manhattan”. Oddly, Dean Koontz would use a similar idea with his 1987 novel Watchers. In that book, a Golden Retriever named Einstein gains super-intelligence and escapes from a secret government lab. The dog and its new owner are tracked by shadowy assassins and a genetically engineered monster. I'm sure there are dozens of super-pooch books, some good, some not so much. As for Night Howl...it's a snoozefest. If you have to own it, get it HERE.
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Andrew Neiderman is probably best known for his 19th career novel, The Devil's Advocate, which was adapted into a film in 1997 starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves. He authored over 100 novels, mostly of the horror and suspense genre. We've reviewed a couple of them, Someone's Watching (1983) and Pin (1981), so I was anxious to get back to his vintage horror work. I decided to try the killer-dog formula and tracked down Night Howl, published by Pocket in 1986.
The book is set in upstate New York. A German Shepherd has escaped a secret government laboratory that specializes in biological and chemical weapons and genetic engineering. It's a catch-all for a special project providing super-intelligence to dogs. While this portion of the book is a bit cloudy, apparently, part of the genes injected into this dog came from the prison system. So, the pooch – named Phantom – is a criminal mastermind trapped in a dog's body. It's like the killer trapped in the plastic shell of the Chucky doll in those Child's Play films and shows.
Phantom has a run-in with the Kaufmans, an ordinary family of peaceful suburbanites, while also being hunted by the government operatives. Neiderman uses varying perspectives to present the story; this includes all of the doggy thoughts of Phantom himself – food, mating, kill!
As you can tell from the tone, I really hated this book. Night Howl is nearly 300-pages of absolute nothingness. Perhaps it was a quick concept pitched to Neiderman by a Cujo-hungry agent or editor, or simply an unenthusiastic “when animals attack” idea that the author wanted his claws in. There are some interesting kills, a few effective pages of a home-invasion, and a complete location swerve as the action moves to New York City faster than you can say “Jason Takes Manhattan”.
Oddly, Dean Koontz would use a similar idea with his 1987 novel Watchers. In that book, a Golden Retriever named Einstein gains super-intelligence and escapes from a secret government lab. The dog and its new owner are tracked by shadowy assassins and a genetically engineered monster. I'm sure there are dozens of super-pooch books, some good, some not so much. As for Night Howl...it's a snoozefest.
If you have to own it, get it HERE.
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