The dog is called Black Shuck in East Anglia, Hairy Jack in Lincolnshire and Barghest in Yorkshire and Lancashire Terrifying tales of "hell hounds" - ferocious black dogs, eyes glowing and teeth ...

DOG YEARS by Günter Grass. 570 pages. Harcourt, Brace & World. $6.95.It is scarcely surprising that a novel about the monstrous should prove to be a monstrosity. However, the third novel by ...

Terrifying tales of "hell hounds" - ferocious black dogs, eyes glowing and teeth bared as they wreak vengeance on the population - have been the stuff of legend for centuries. It has cemented the ...