The Book of the Dun Cow (Magill’s Guide to Science Fiction and Fantasy Literature)
At a glance:
- Author: Walter Wangerin, Jr.
- First Published: 1978
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Fantasy—animal fantasy
- Time of Work: Undefined, with echoes of both medieval and modern times
- Setting: Earth and the netherworld
- Genres: Long fiction, Fantasy, Animal tale
- Subjects: Dogs, Good and evil, Antichrist figures, Birds, Christ figures or saviors, Middle Ages, Animals, Underworld or Hades
- Locales: Earth, Underworld
The Plot
In this story of hilarity and horror, Walter Wangerin, Jr., creates a delightfully varied, though temperamental, menagerie that exists more or less peacefully under the wings of the great Chauntecleer, its irritable but responsible leader. The hilarity flows out of the colorful personality clashes, wit, and foibles of these furry creatures and fowl. Hilarity gives way to horror when Wyrm, condemned to live deep below the earth’s surface, becomes bent on destroying all that is good by unleashing his forces of madness and mayhem.
The pending threat to...
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