Word: grubb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...DREAM OF KINGS, by Davis Grubb (357 pp.; Scribner; $3.95). Abijah Hornbrook was just a Virginia ne'er-do-well who left his family to fend for themselves, but his eight-year-old daughter, Cathie, was sure that he would return some day a king. So was Tom, the orphan with whom she was raised. Tom had a vision of Abijah "high and lofty on a frothing mare ... a giant printed on the sky." Tom tells his own first-person story of how he grows to manhood in the Civil War South, thinking he hates Cathie, but really loving...
Charles Laughton (Tues. 9 p.m., NBC). Readings from Shaw's Don Juan in Hell and from Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter...
...Night of the Hunter (Paul Gregory; United Artists). Davis Grubb's tense 1954 novel about an itinerant psychopathic preacher is a natural for cinemelo-drama. Directed by Actor Charles Laughton, it is a garish, unbelievable but fairly exciting nightmare...
...NIGHT OF THE HUNTER, by Davis Grubb. An exercise in terror in which a psychopathic evangelist and murderer creates a nightmare world for a mother and her two young children. Exceptionally effective for a first novelist...
...Night of the Hunter, by Davis Grubb. A beautifully written chiller about an Ohio River town and a Bible-spouting homicidal maniac (TIME, March...