![]() ![]() ![]() The Edge of Running Water was also adapted into a 1941 Boris Karloff film called The Devil Commands. ![]() Admirers of his fiction include Robert Bloch, who counted To Walk the Night among his top ten favorite horror novels, and Michael Moorcock, who included the same title in his Fantasy: The Best 100 Books. After producing these two novels, Sloane then turned to editing and publishing, serving as director of Rutgers University Press and later launching his own eponymous company. Early in his career, he composed several plays that featured the fantastical, and he later tried his hand at two novels- To Walk the Night (1937) and The Edge of Running Water (1939) - collected for release this year in The Rim of Morning from New York Review of Books. William Sloane (1906 – 1974) was an American publisher, editor, and author who worked primarily in the fields of science fiction and the supernatural. My fear seemed to have no such focal point it colored the rest of my thoughts but it had no shape of its own. It fastens itself on that figure and embodies itself with its image. But if he sees the shadow of a man shouldered back in a doorway his fear rushes together like wind to the heart of a cyclone. ![]() He does not say to himself, “Maybe I am going to get held up and beaten in this place.” He simply feels uneasy. I was like a man walking down an unfamiliar street in a strange city, late at night, with a vague substratum of uneasiness in his mind. ![]()
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