Count Karlstein, or The Ride of the Demon Huntsman, was Philip Pullman's first novel for children, published by Chatto and Windus in 1982. It is a wonderful gothic melodrama which he first wrote as a play for school-children when he was an English teacher. Two young girls are in danger: their wicked uncle has made a bargain to hand them over to the terrifying Demon Huntsman, and it's up to a young maidservant called Hildi to rescue them.
- ISBN10 0385605110
- ISBN13 9780385605113
- Publish Date 4 November 2002 (first published 28 July 1998)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2014
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Penguin Random House Children's UK
- Imprint Doubleday Children's Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English