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Two young children, Pearl and John Harper, are being raised alone by their mother in Cresap's Landing, Ohio. Their father Ben has just been executed for killing two men in the course of an armed robbery. Ben never told anyone where he hid the ten thousand dollars he stole; not his widow Willa, not his lawyer, nor his cell-mate Henry "Preacher" Powell.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ What a truly terrifying book. I‘ve seen this classic movie many times, but the book is even more frightening. The Hunter is creepy, abusive, but knows how to charm people. The relationship he forms with the little girl Pearl is so disturbing. This was a good classic that I‘m glad I finally read. This was my #doublespin No. 1 pick and definitely a good #screamathon book.

An odd little story. The decision to not surround dialogue with punctuation marks was strange, but as the story went on it made sense. For a book from the 1950‘s it‘s almost scary how well it can put you in the perspective of a child, how much it writes that children should be valued and protected, and how we still need to hear that.

1- SE Canada, close to Que. 2- I don't remember. It was early-Litsy before ads so maybe someone mentioned it on Tumblr. 3- The Night of the Hunter, it's up there with Citizen Kane as one of the best films ever made. 4- Yes. As a kid, I used to bring home snapping turtles from the highway near my house. I'd keep them for a few days then release them 🐢#welcomelitten

THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER is a magical, terrifying, beautiful read. It's a book so fresh it feels as if it were written yesterday. Had a student at a reading ask me once what my favorite book was. Answer: this one. It gave us Charles Laughton's filmic masterpiece, sure, but it deserves to be remembered in its own right. Can't recommend enough.