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...ETERNAL SMILE & OTHER STORIES (389 pp.)-Pār Lagerkvist-Random House...
HACKENFELLER'S APE (177 pp.)-Brophy - Random House...
...Time of the Fire by Marc Brandel (Random House; $3) is a workmanlike portrait of a small American town and its mass hysteria under the terror of a homicidal maniac. The terror and hysteria rise to a high boil when the remains of local women are found neatly decapitated and expertly carved. Before the killer gets his comeuppance, the frigid daughter of one of the town's leading citizens thaws herself out, and town and townsmen are brought to naked life with considerable psychological insight...
Terror on Broadway by David Alexander (Random House; $2.75) is written in a language that bears a deceptive resemblance to English but is actually Broadwayese. In Novelist Alexander's hands, it is a blunt instrument that he uses to hammer out the unhappy saga of Waldo. Waldo is a psychopathic killer who gets a boyish kick out of playing ticktacktoe with a knife on the bodies of the ladies he dispatches. It is perfectly clear at the very beginning that Waldo is going to be caught by Hero Bart Hardin, editor of the Broadway Times, a journal devoted...
...WORLD IN THE EVENING (301 pp.)-Christopher Isherwood-Random House...