Review: "Faithfully Yours" by Lou Tabakow (1955)

Posted on February 14th, 2008

Short psychological story about Tee Ormond, an escapee from the prison planet Hades (”No one escapes Hades”). Ormond is a desperate fugitive, destined to stay continually on the run after the prison authorities on Hades assign an electronic bloodhound to pursue him and fool with his brain.

Tee Ormond After ten long years, Ormond, increasingly desperate to shake the demon that is driving him, attempts to turn himself in to the Hades authorities only to find that once the bloodhound is set to a scent, it cannot be recalled. He is last seen, haunted, heading for the deep reaches of space.