Friends, Followers, I have been silent for some time - and for good reason! Tucked away in my bunker, under siege from visions, dreams, wildlife documentaries and troubling YouTube clips about the undead apocalypse, I have attempted to make sense of it all through another troubling tale .... and here it is:
Little Lumina loves her pet beagle, Scud, even though he's been quietly brought back from the grave by her father. Now stranger things are surfacing in the volcanic town which is home to Doctor Grubo's health clinic...
Would the doctor erupt if he was wise to the kind of animal testing going on in the clinic's lab, or does he have a hidden interest in developments?
Could Scud be responsible for licking roadkill back to life? A demon badger is bad enough, but can that really be a zombie swan? And how do you walk a part-decomposed hound without attracting attention - or flies?
Scud may be a one-eyed corpse dog, but as bedlam grips the town he can still smell a mystery. When the beagle goes missing, Lumina must fight tooth and claw to save his life. Again.
Lazlo Stranglov's Tooth & Claw (illustrated by poor, frazzled Quinton Winter) will be published in the UK by Walker Books on 7th February 2011.
