Harry Horse
Richard Horne, pen name Harry Horse (9 May 1960, Coventry - c. 10 January 2007, Shetland Island of Burra) was a British author, illustrator and political cartoonist. He was also known as a member of the band Swamptrash.
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Works
Books
His first book, Ogopogo, My Journey with the Loch Ness Monster, was published in 1983. He also wrote The Last... series, which included The Last Polar Bears, which was made into a 30-minute cartoon for CITV and a touring theatre production for the National Theatre of Scotland, and The Last Castaways, which won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize.
Political cartoons
From 1987-1992 Horne was a political cartoonist for Scotland on Sunday, The Scotsman and, until his death in 2007, the Sunday Herald newspapers. His illustrations also appeared regularly in The Observer and The Independent newspapers.
Computer game
In 1993 he created, designed, and wrote a point-and-click adventure game for Time Warner called Drowned God: Conspiracy of the Ages. The game was based on a forged manuscript he had written a decade earlier, purported to have been written by 19th century poet Richard Henry Horne, who shares Horse's name.[1]
Illustrations
His illustrations appeared in books as diverse as The Good Golf Guide to Scotland, a centenary edition of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, five books by Martin C. Strong all published by Canongate Books (The Great Rock Discography, 1st-4th ed. (1994-1998) and The Wee Rock Discography (1996))[2] and the children's book Magus the Lollipop Man
Music
In the late eighties he was the singer and front man of the legendary Edinburgh band Swamptrash, which later evolved, without Horse, into the still performing Shooglenifty.[3]
Death
On January 10, 2007, Horne's body was discovered holding his wife Mandy, who had been terminally ill with multiple sclerosis, in their bungalow in Papil, West Burra.[4] The Daily Mail reported on July 13, 2008 that rather than the "Romeo and Juliet" scene described in many articles relating to their deaths, Horse had stabbed her thirty times before killing their pets and stabbing himself until he too bled to death.[5] The Daily Mail piece, which appeared in the print edition on Monday July 14, was in fact a follow-up to a lengthy investigative feature in the Sunday Times Magazine of 13 July 2008 by Peter and Leni Gillman, in which they had revealed the truth about the couple's death. The Gillmans had multiple sources for their revelation, including information from both families and the death certificates, which described the cause of death as exsanguination.[6] Actor Tam Dean Burn, who had put together an aborted radio tribute to Horse the week before Horse's death said that the 2008 report was "a cruel distortion" in 2009, after speaking with Horse's female relatives.[7]
References
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