Search Results: the legend of sawney bean by holmes ronald

London: Frederick Muller, 1975. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. 157pp. Early page with a faint stain, boards very slightly splayed, still about near fine in a price-clipped very good or better dust jacket with a slightly sunned spine and light edgewear. The best examination of the infamous, possibly mythical Scottish cannibal patriarch whose clan killed and devoured hundreds of people over the course of 25 years. The story, popularized here and elsewhere, inspired numerous films, notably Wes Craven's 1977 *The Hills Have Eyes*. Inscribed by the author to Graham Stone.