tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post107594733774632123..comments2024-03-06T11:11:48.095-08:00Comments on Too Much Horror Fiction: Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural by Davis Grubb (1964)Will Erricksonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16285306262078600804noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-62803725892631281642018-09-03T14:03:35.972-07:002018-09-03T14:03:35.972-07:00I picked up this very edition at a used bookstore ...I picked up this very edition at a used bookstore not long after finding a hardcover edition of "Night Of The Hunter" at an antique store. Both were solid reads. The Wellman comparison Adam makes is spot on. Laughton's adaptation of "Hunter" is, for my money, the finest cinematic adaptation of a novel (particularly a horror novel) I've ever seen and one film that neverBLBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10970118310200009269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-83617997852025467182014-12-19T16:48:08.409-08:002014-12-19T16:48:08.409-08:00"The Return of Verge Likens" was also do..."The Return of Verge Likens" was also done by the Alfred Hitchcock Hour (not AH Presents, which were 1/2 hr shows), starring a young Peter Fonda, also George Lindsay (Goober" on Andy Griffith) as a heavy.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16755393226640706872noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-7164379196953210252014-12-04T18:43:54.397-08:002014-12-04T18:43:54.397-08:00NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is one of the best horror nove...NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is one of the best horror novels ever written.Tim Mayerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16191899859528990414noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-59041711972970968342014-11-30T12:01:26.074-08:002014-11-30T12:01:26.074-08:00highwayknees, sounds like this is the edition you&...highwayknees, sounds like this is the edition you're describing:<br /><br />http://www.ilex-press.com/wp-content/uploads/Grubb_Hunter-304x451.jpgRon Clintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18433028755791230589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-26944048435257705432014-11-30T09:48:01.806-08:002014-11-30T09:48:01.806-08:00You will love the dark classic Night of the Hunter...You will love the dark classic Night of the Hunter when you do finally get around to reading it Will. I had a pb copy with a great spooky cover illustration that i read in my formative years and it was one that really sucked me in, being just out of the bounds of childhood myself at 12 or 13 it had quite an impact!<br /><br />I wish I still had that copy, I'm thinking the illustration, by it&highwaykneeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00458606266831050852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-78186341256190216222014-11-29T09:23:40.597-08:002014-11-29T09:23:40.597-08:00"The Horsehair Trunk" was made into an e..."The Horsehair Trunk" was made into an episode of The Night Gallery entitled The Last Laurel. Pretty good if I remember. Love your blog by the way.Vitihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02395728077659962457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-161722477194868642014-11-28T21:36:25.304-08:002014-11-28T21:36:25.304-08:00Grubb is fantastic, ain't he? When you were l...Grubb is fantastic, ain't he? When you were listing contemporaries, you left out one that I always connect him to: Manly Wade Wellman. I still haven't finished my copy of Twelve Tales, it's one of my prized paperbacks. Adamhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17530188453997612858noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-825351661748594023.post-76979881003091028562014-11-28T18:34:51.755-08:002014-11-28T18:34:51.755-08:00Great piece on this collection, one that I might r...Great piece on this collection, one that I might rate just slightly higher than you, given that you regard it as "not a classic by any means"...I'd argue that it certainly borders on it, at a minimum. Unfortunately but like many writers, it seems, his later short fiction was not up to the standard of this first collection. While I've not yet read The Siege of 318: Thirteen Ron Clintonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18433028755791230589noreply@blogger.com