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Private detectives hired by the magazine helped unmask Mrs. DeBoyer as the mastermind of the forgery and her daughter as the willing purveyor of the deceitful goods. Minor signed a statement that was not quite a confession, but near enough to close the case. Her mother had composed the letters, she admitted, but had received the messages from the spirits of Lincoln and Rutledge while in a trance. Claimed Minor: "The spirits of Ann and Abe were speaking through my mother to me, so that my gifts as a writer combined with her gifts as a medium could hand...
King is the novelist of middle America. Anyone who sells as many books as he does and writes about the eerie topics he chooses--vampires, ghosts, mad dogs--is usually tossed off by the critics as a purveyor of supermarket literature. But King pays no attention to those effete reviewers concerned with literary value; he knows that everyone goes to the supermarket...
...words of others, which are not his property, and his own words in their behalf. The matter is abstract, thus unnerving. Every word is an idea, and that may offer consolation or encouragement. But ideas are also merely represented by words, and when the teacher, who is the purveyor and curator of words, strides into the classroom and spills the words on his desk, he has no control over them, no way to enforce intelligence, charity, love, wit, or any of the elements of which the books he values are made...
...Dead), the Pittsburgh poet of zombie cannibalism, and Stephen King (Carrie, The Shining), the man who took horror out of the subconscious and put it back on America's supermarket shelves; one of the last of the true B movie filmmakers directing a screenplay by the foremost purveyor of mass paperback horror. Unfortunately, a potentially interesting juxtaposition fails. Romero's shock tactics end up being overwhelmed by King's schlock tactics, and the result, Creepshow, is certainly not worthy of the fetid--but rich--soil from which it sprang...
Indeed, though And More ultimately succeeds, it remains an unbalanced collection, at once offering Rooney as both high-brow humorist and purveyor of driveling banalities. Like his television pieces, many of Rooney's columns can't be taken more than a few minutes at a time. There's a limit to how many little mysteries of daily life one can absorb in a sitting or two. Essays entitled "Glue," "Hangers," and "Pennies" lose some of their off beat charm when they follow the likes of "Bathtubs." "The Refrigerator," and "Donuts...