Davis Grubb was born in the Ohio River town of Moundsville, West Virginia in 1919 and died in New York City in 1980. He lived a various life, writing novels and short stories, screenplays, television treatments and working as a radio announcer. The Night of the Hunter was shortlisted for the 1955 National Book Award and in the same year was made into a legendary film starring Robert Mitchum as Preacher.
Davis Grubb's The Night of the Hunter remains the gold standard of
southern noir. Grubb's unforgettably charismatic and psychopathic
villain, Harry Powell, still has the power to flood your
twenty-first century dreams with terror.
*Richard Price*
A thriller which commands one's frozen attention. It is also a work
of beauty and power and astonishing verbal magic.
*New York Times*
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