Download or read book The War Hound and the World's Pain, a Fable written by Michael Moorcock and published by Ultramarine Publishing Company. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The War Hound and the World's Pain is a 1981 fantasy novel by English writer Michael Moorcock, the first of the "von Bek" series of novels. The book is set in Europe ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. Its hero Ulrich von Bek is a mercenary and freethinker, who finds himself a damned soul in a castle owned by Lucifer.