This remarkable autobiographical play by the award-winning author of Building Jerusalem and Martin Sloane, is a Russian-doll-like play: concentric stories enveloping each other. A writer is told, in confidence, a terrible tale of murder and injustice and he promises never to repeat the story. Goodness is the writer breaking his word. Recently divorced, Michael Redhill goes to Poland to get away frm his life and to do some research on the Holoca ...
Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel’s widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma. ...
Down from the bleak Kentucky hills swept the stark-naked mob of murder- maddened Blancos – sacking and slaying as they came! Neither steel nor bullet could stem that terror-tide of man-made albino monsters, whipped to a frenzy of lust by their criminal chief. Eastward they crept until New York, itself, was at their mercy, and human victims, bloodied and outraged, lay in their path. Once again Richard Wentworth, in the Spider's disguise of d ...
Where does fantasy end and horror begin? Is there beauty in terror? Does horror possess a spiritual dimension? In these five classic tales written by acknowledged masters of the supernatural, these haunting questions are explored…but not fully answered. First, in A. Merritt's haunting «The Moon Pool,» a moonlit pool nestled among cyclopean ruins harbors a vampiric dweller both beautiful and terrible in its unearthly majestry. «The House and ...
Just as Adolph Hitler brutally slaughtered his opponents, so did Asmodeus, Master of the Night-Demons, crush New York's police force and lay down his hideous ultimatum to the city: «Surrender… or die!» Could one man – Richard Wentworth – with only his pitifully few loyal allies, and the Spider's sinister garb, stem this monstrous Blitzkrieg of crime! How can millionaire criminologist Richard Wentworth, secretly the Spider, battle such ...
