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Revenge is a 1971 British thriller film directed by Sidney Hayers and starring Joan Collins, James Booth and Sinéad Cusack. [1] The screenplay was by John Kruse.It was released in the United States in May 1976 as Inn of the Frightened People.
Jamaica Inn is a novel by the English writer Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1936. It was later made into a film, also called Jamaica Inn, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. It is a period piece set in Cornwall around 1815. It was inspired by du Maurier's 1930 stay at the real Jamaica Inn, which still exists as a pub in the middle of Bodmin ...
Nicolaus Vedder – Landlord of the local inn where menfolk congregate; Dominie Van Schaick – The local parson; Jonathan Doolittle – Owner of the Union Hotel, the establishment that replaced the village inn; Wolf – Van Winkle's faithful dog; Man carrying a keg up the mountain – The ghost of one of Henry Hudson's crew members
The League of Frightened Men is the second Nero Wolfe detective novel by Rex Stout. The story was serialized in six issues of The Saturday Evening Post (June 15–July 20, 1935) under the title The Frightened Men. The novel was published in 1935 by Farrar & Rinehart, Inc.
Four Frightened People is a 1934 American Pre-Code adventure film directed by Cecil B. DeMille and starring Claudette Colbert, Herbert Marshall, Mary Boland, and William Gargan. It is based on the 1931 novel by E. Arnot Robertson .
The book was a critical and commercial success, debuting at the top of the New York Times Fantasy list. [8] [9] In Bookmarks May/June 2011 issue, a magazine that aggregates critic reviews of books, the book received a (4.00 out of 5) with the summary stating, "Nevertheless, readers who enjoyed Wind should not miss The Wise Man's Fear and will no doubt join the critics in singing Rothfuss's ...
The Mystery at Lilac Inn is the fourth volume in the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories series. It was first published in 1930 under the pseudonym Carolyn Keene. [1] Mildred Wirt Benson was the ghostwriter of the 1930 edition. [2] In 1961, Harriet Stratemeyer Adams extensively revised the novel, creating a completely different story. The original ...
Biographer Jocelyn Baines provides no analysis of "The Inn of the Two Witches", merely describing it as "a very un-typical potboiler" and "a story more suitable for boys than for adults." [ 4 ] Literary critic Laurence Graver, after providing a thumbnail sketch of the story, adds that the work "does not require discussion."