New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (1998.). Hardcover - Pullman's first fantasy novel for children, originally published in a slightly different form in England by Chatto and Windus. The US edition is the first to contain Diana Bryan's illustrations. A combination of horror, suspense and humor - "In the mountains of Switzerland, the wicked Count Karlstein plots to abandon his two nieces in a hunting lodge as prey for the Demon Huntsman and his ghostly hounds." 243 pp. ISBN: 0-679-892559.