![]() ![]() They might have come out of a family of migrant workers subsistence farmers, or maybe the bankers’ home. "You have to see these rich, young, small-town dames to know what she was really like. Funny thing is, A Night For Screaming's opening chapter includes this terrific bit of description: That's a lot of sicknesses in a lot of faces for a novel about 150 pages long, and that's not even all of them. " I brought the gun up, held it where he could see it. "I felt nothing except the sickness, the emptiness." " Evans grinned at me, even through the gray sickness in his own face." " He winced, turning his head quickly as if he was afraid I’d see the sickness in his face." But a sameness of descriptions makes me suspect the prolific Whittington dashed this one off even faster than usual. ![]() ![]() He doesn't call it the best, though, which is good, because I read it and Whittington A Ticket to Hell this week, and I thought the latter a much stronger book.Ĭrider rightly highlights Screaming's skillful plotting, especially Whittington's practice of making things as bad as possible for his protagonist, and then building suspense by making them worse. ![]() Bill Crider, who knows Harry Whittington's work a lot better than I do, calls A Night for Screaming "probably my favorite" of Whittington's novels. ![]()
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