The Night of the Hunter
Title | The Night of the Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Davis Grubb |
Publisher | Vintage |
Pages | 274 |
Release | 2015-07-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1101910062 |
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
Heaven and Hell to Play with
Title | Heaven and Hell to Play with PDF eBook |
Author | Preston Neal Jones |
Publisher | Hal Leonard Corporation |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 9780879109745 |
Jones uncovers the fascinating inside story of the making of this film, one of the American Film Institutes's 100 Greatest Thrillers. Every aspect is revealed of the film's development and production - casting, design, shooting, scoring, and editing - to the profound disappointment upon its release. This book is the result of over a decade of archival research and interviews with a dozen key people associated with the film, including Grubb, Gregory, actors Robert Mitchum and Lillian Gish and cinematographer Stanley Cortez. Their oral histories, along with numerous artifacts and film stills, are here deftly assembled into an account that is as compelling as the movie it celebrates.
Unleash the Night
Title | Unleash the Night PDF eBook |
Author | Sherrilyn Kenyon |
Publisher | St. Martin's Paperbacks |
Pages | 387 |
Release | 2005-12-27 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0312362013 |
It's a predator eat predator world for the Were-Hunters. Danger haunts any given day. There is no one to trust. No one to love. Not if they want to live... An orphan with no clan that will claim him, Wren Tigarian grew to adulthood under the close scrutiny and mistrust of those around him. A forbidden blend of two animals—snow leopard and white tiger—Wren has never listened to anyone when there was something he wanted. Now he wants Marguerite. Marguerite D'Aubert Goudeau is the daughter of a prominent U.S. Senator who hates the socialite life she's forced to live. Like her mother before her, she has strong Cajun roots that her father doesn't understand. Still, she has no choice but to try and conform to a world where she feels like an outsider. But the world of rich and powerful humans is never to meet the world of the Were-Hunters who exist side by side with them, unseen, unknown, undetected. To break this law is to call down a wrath of the highest order. In order to have Marguerite, Wren must fight not just the humans who will never accept his animal nature, but the Were-Hunters who want him dead for endangering their world. It's a race against time and magic without boundary that could cost Marguerite and Wren not just their lives, but their very souls...
Sins of the Night
Title | Sins of the Night PDF eBook |
Author | Sherrilyn Kenyon |
Publisher | Macmillan |
Pages | 336 |
Release | 2016-11-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1250104947 |
A Dark-Hunter on a dangerous mission finds his life and love on the line when he meets Dangereuse St. Richard, a beautiful and distracting Dark-Hunter who is out to prevent him from carrying out his duty to destroy her friends.
Night of the Hunter
Title | Night of the Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | R. A. Salvatore |
Publisher | National Geographic Books |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2014-09-02 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0786965177 |
Drizzt and the Companions of the Hall join forces to rescue an old friend and battle drow intrigue in this new chapter in the New York Times–bestselling saga The beloved Companions of the Hall have been restored, thanks to the workings of the goddess Mielikki. With his most faithful friends at his side once more, Drizzt Do'Urden returns to Gauntlgrym to rescue Thibbledorf Pwent, Bruenor’s loyal shield dwarf-turned-vampire. But in order to return Pwent back to his mortal form, Drizzt and the Companions must first undertake a perilous journey through the Underdark—a journey made all the more dangerous by the political turmoil that has erupted among drow society. House Baenre, the most prestigious of the ruling drow houses, wants to increase its power over Menzoberranzan even further. While their leaders race to erect a sister city in Gauntlgrym, a Baenre noble seeks to tear down Drizzt Do'Urden once and for all. Night of the Hunter is the first book in the Companions Codex and the twenty-eighth book in the Legend of Drizzt series.
The Night of the Hunter
Title | The Night of the Hunter PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey Couchman |
Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
Pages | 314 |
Release | 2009-02-12 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN | 0810125420 |
Reaching simultaneously into the realms of film and literature, "The Night of the Hunter": A Biography of a Film details the transformation of Davis Grubb's 1953 novel into a motion picture. A popular and critical success, the novel spent four months on the New York Times bestseller list, and Hollywood responded to its atmospheric lyricism. In the hands of first-time director Charles Laughton, the story became equal parts thriller, allegory, and fever dream, filled with slow, inexorable suspense. Yet the film initially failed at the box office. In the first major study of the long-lost first-draft screenplay by James Agee, Jeffrey Couchman confronts a fifty-year controversy about the authorship of the film. He explores many levels of artistic convergence-between novelist and director, director and actor, and cinematic form and audience expectations. The talents that clashed or came together along the road from book to movie created a film of rich stylistic contradiction. Combining biographical and historical analysis with a critical study of both the novel and the film, Couchman makes the case that this initially overlooked cinematic gem is a prismatic work that continually reveals new aspects of itself. Book jacket.
Night of Thunder
Title | Night of Thunder PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen Hunter |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Adventure fiction |
ISBN | 1416565116 |
Deep in the heart of Dixie for a weeklong NASCAR event, Bob Lee Swagger, protagonist of "Point of Impact," returns in this explosively gritty thrill ride as he metes justice out to those who targeted his reporter-daughter.