sentences:  The Beast of Kane, concerns the Gordon family, who adopt a stray elk-hound that turns out to be "Satan himself, fulfilling an ancient prophecy".Written in the late 1970s under the title The Dogs of Kane, the book was submitted as a possible film project for Hammer Film Productions but was rejected.Twemlow then tried to make a film of The Pike, starring Joan Collins, but the budget could not be raised despite Collins' star power and Twemlow and Collins promoting the film on the BBC's Look North programme.