The bestselling, National Book Award–finalist novel that inspired Charles Laughton’s expressionist horror classic starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters. Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap’s Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa, not his lawyer, nor his cell-mate Henry “Preacher” Powell. But Preacher, with his long history of charming his way into widows’ hearts and lives, has an inkling that Ben's money could be within his reach. As soon as he is free, Preacher makes his way up the river to visit the Harper family where—he hopes—a little child shall lead him to the fortune that he seeks. Foreword by JULIA KELLER

The Night of the Hunter

Literature & Fiction

GRUBB, Davis

Contemporary

Penguin??Books

From Publishers Weekly\nThis posthumous collection of 18 short stories by the author of The Night of the Hunter attests to the talent of this enriching, humane and under-esteemed writer. Grubb's stories are in the gothic manner, brimming with murder, madness and destructive passion, yet they are admirably controlled, and exhibit a rigorous morality mixed with an imagination undaunted by the dark chambers of the human heart. The title story is a ghoulish tale involving the disappearance of an orphan whose fantasy world becomes more real than her cruel life with her aunt and grandfather. Revenge is a prominent motif in "Return of Verge Likens," where the son of a man killed by a local hoodlum spends years working on an elaborate plan of vengeance, and in "Green Thumb," in which a dead man whose body was hidden by his killer wife leads authorities to the spot where he was buried. Orphans, bachelors, spinsters, cranks, psychotics and confidence men populate Grubb's remote West Virginia landscapes. Each story is introduced by an ironic comment from the author's notebooks, and the best of them are gems that will last. 
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.\nFrom Library Journal\nA collection of 18 short stories--some suspense, some southern slice of life--by the late author of The Night of the Hunter . Though originally found in magazines, this is the first time the stories are together in book form.-- 
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

You Never Believe Me: And Other Stories

United States

St Martins Pr

1970 - 1st Edition - Signet - #Q4642 - Paperback - Fool's Parade - By Davis Grubb - Movie Tie In - Columbia Pictures - James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Anne Baxter - Good Condition - Collectible

Fool's Parade

Signet

A modern epic novel about the search for truth in a world gone mad. The founders of an international electronic conspiracy are positioning themselves to take over the world. And there's only one man who can stop them--a country bumpkin from West Virginia named Sweeley Leech.

Ancient Lights

Literary

Viking Adult

A modern epic novel about the search for truth in a world gone mad. The founders of an international electronic conspiracy are positioning themselves to take over the world. And there's only one man who can stop them--a country bumpkin from West Virginia named Sweeley Leech.

The Barefoot Man

The barefoot man

Simon&Schuster

When Ben Harper goes to the gallows for a bank robbery killing, he leaves his young children John and Pearl to hide the $10,000. Soon a strange preacher comes to town ..........

The Night Of The Hunter

Isis Audio Books

Inspired by serial killer Harry Powers, "The Bluebeard of Quiet Dell," who was hung in 1932 for his murders of two widows and three children. This best-selling novel, first published in 1953 to wide acclaim by author Grubb, (who like Powers lived in Clarksburg, West Virginia), served as the basis for Charles Laughton's noir classic . Renamed "Harry Powell," the lead character in this book, with LOVE and HATE tattooed on his fingers, is remembered as one of the creepiest men in book and cinema history.

Action & Adventure

Isis Large Print Books

Romance

Kensington Pub. Corp

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The Night of the Hunter

You Never Believe Me: And Other Stories

Fool's Parade

Ancient Lights

Ancient Lights

The barefoot man

The Night Of The Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

The Barefoot Man