Captain Cuttle 1927. He died at the Mirafiori stud, near Turin in 1932 after breaking his back in a freak accident. The name "Captain Cuttle" was taken from a character in Dombey and Son by Charles Dickens, Captain Edward Cuttle. It was subsequently applied to an LNER Class A3 locomotive, No. 2745 (BR number 60091), many of which class were named for racehorses. Captain Cuttle Captain Cuttle was a British Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. He ran only six times in a career which was restricted by chronic injury problems. He was the outstanding British colt of his generation, winning The Derby and
Mrs. God (novel) Mrs. God (novel) Mrs. God is a fantasy novel by American writer Peter Straub. It was first published in 1990 by Donald M. Grant, Publisher, Inc. in an edition of 1,350 copies, of which 600 copies were signed by the author and the artist, bound in quarter leather and slipcased as a deluxe edition. The novel is expanded from the short novel of the same name that appeared in Straub's collection "Houses Without Doors". A trade edition hardcover was issued later. The novel, a modern Gothic, concerns an American professor, William Standish, who is researching the poems of his grandmother