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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 ...
L'Auberge rouge (English "The Red Inn") is a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was published in 1831 and is one of the Études philosophiques of La Comédie humaine . [ 1 ]
After the incident at the gallows, he began traveling with a waggoner. When one night they arrived at an inn, the inn-keeper told him that if he wanted to know how to shudder, he should visit the haunted castle nearby. If he could manage to stay there for three nights in a row, he could learn how to shudder, as well as win the king's daughter ...
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.
Sutherland identifies The Invisible Man as one such book. [3] Wells said that his inspiration for the novella was "The Perils of Invisibility", one of the Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert , which includes the couplet "Old Peter vanished like a shot/but then – his suit of clothes did not."
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 ...
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."