I
am eagerly awaiting in the mail the arrival of two 1950s-era paperbacks
that I ordered through biblio.com. MARK OF THE MOON and THE WITCHING
NIGHT. I'm including images of the covers of both books. These two
novels were in my dad's paperback library, and I "appropriated" them
when I was 12 or 13. I no longer remember anything about them -- except
that one of them (THE WITCHING NIGHT, I think) features a knock-knock
joke, told (I think) by the hero's secretary to the
hero:
"Knock-knock."
"Who's there?"
"Formaldehyde."
"Formaldehyde who?"
"Formaldehyde-ing places came de Indians, whoo-whoo-whoo."
I only hope the rest of the books are that good! (But -- if that's all I remember about either -- what does it say about
the books themselves?)
4 comments:
I've read both of these! THE WITCHING NIGHT is the only book I've ever read that uses Indiana Dunes State Park as one of the key locations. It's also one of the best contemporary stories about witchcraft in a genre novel. Very creepy, never laughable. The other book is a Dennis Wheatley knock-off of Devil worship in French Riviera. I thought it pretty boring for a thriller. Cody's book is by far the better of the two and I highly recommend it.
I see that that reprint uses a different name on THE WITCHING NIGHT. The author on my copy is C.S. Cody, but I just learned it's a pseudonym and Leslie Waller was the guy's real name. He died in 2007. Never knew this book was reprinted.
Hard Case is publishing great books with fantastic retro-art covers. Check 'em out.
Those are great classic covers!
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