William March

Now reissued – William March's 1954 classic thriller that's as chilling, intelligent and timely as ever before. This paperback reissue includes a new P.S. section with author interviews, insights, features, suggested reading and more. What happens to ordinary families into whose midst a child serial killer is born? This is the question at the center of William march's classic thriller. After its initial publication in 1954, the book went on to become a million–copy bestseller, a wildly successful Broadway show, and a Warner Brothers film. The spine–tingling tale of little Rhoda Penmark had a tremendous impact on the thriller genre and generated a whole perdurable crop of creepy kids. Today, The Bad Seed remains a masterpiece of suspense that's as chilling, intelligent, and timely as ever before.

The Bad Seed

A collection of short first-person narratives by the members of a company caught in the frontline in the first World War.

Company K

Quando nasce a maldade? Nascemos todos inocentes e somos corrompidos pelo mundo à nossa volta? Ou será a maldade uma espécie de semente que carregamos dentro de nós, capaz de brotar mesmo na mais adorável das crianças? Há 62 anos, um livro de suspense psicológico faria com que milhões de leitores discutissem apaixonadamente essa questão. Que livro era esse? Menina Má, mais um clássico que a DarkSide Books desenterra para os fãs do que há de melhor, e mais sombrio, na literatura mundial. Publicado originalmente em 1954, Menina Má se transformou quase imediatamente em um estrondoso sucesso. Polêmico, violento, assustador eram alguns adjetivos comuns para descrever o último e mais conhecido romance de William March. Os críticos britânicos consideraram o livro "apavorantemente bom". Ernest Hemingway se declarou um fã. Em menos de um ano, Menina Má ganharia uma montagem nos palcos da Broadway e, em 1956, uma adaptação ao cinema indicada a 4 prêmios Oscar. Rhoda, a pequena malvada do título, é uma linda garotinha de 8 anos de idade. Mas quem vê a carinha de anjo, não suspeita do que ela é capaz. Seria ela a responsável pela morte de um coleguinha da escola? A indiferença da menina faz com que sua mãe, Christine, comece a investigar sobre crimes e psicopatas. Aos poucos, Christine consegue desvendar segredos terríveis sobre sua filha, e sobre o seu próprio passado também. Menina Má é um romance que influenciou não só a literatura como o cinema e a cultura pop. A crueldade escondida na inocência da pequena Rhoda Penmark serviria de inspiração para personagens clássicos do terror, como Damien, Chucky, Annabelle, Samara, de O Chamado, e o serial killer Dexter. O romance de William March é ainda uma excelente dica de leitura para os fãs da coleção Crime Scene, da DarkSide Books, que investiga casos reais de psicopatas. A ficção nunca antes foi tão assustadoramente real como em Menina Má.

Menina má

A Vintage Movie Classic

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Maxwell Anderson

Presents a dramatization of March's novel featuring Rhoda Penmark, who uses her strange powers and talent for evil to force others to give her what she wants.

A Play in Two Acts

Bad Seed

William T. Going

Richard Brough

“March has picked up where Aesop and Don Marquis left off, prick- ing vanities and exposing antics of chronic phonies. . . . Here are damning truths about the Noblest Animal, here is vitriol without venom. richard Brough catches the full flavor in his illustrations.” —New York Times Book Review !--EndFragment--

99 Fables

A William March Omnibus

The Looking-glass

In The Tallons, the second book in his Pearl County” series, William March continues to hone his distinctive style but for the first time creates a work that follows a continuous, linear narrative. Here, March's masterful development of the theme of jealousy highlights his growing maturity and ambition as a writer. Set in a rural Alabama backwater, The Tallons tells the story of two farm boys, Andrew and Jim Tallon. Their placid and predictable life is upended by a girl from Georgia, Myrtle Bickerstaff. The conflict which engulfs these three is built up from a series of carefully chosen and extraordinarily telling incidents to a dramatic climax which will be remembered long after the book is set aside. March framed the novel as a study in paranoia” and to the end of his life considered it one of his strongest works.

The Tallons

His debut novel, Company K, introduced William March to the reading public as a gifted writer of modern fiction. Of that World War I classic Graham Greene wrote: It is the only war book I have read which has found a new form to fit the novelty of the protest. The prose is bare, lucid, without literary echoes.” After Company K, March brought his same unerring style to a cycle of novels and short storieshis Pearl County” seriesinspired in part by his childhood in the vicinity of Mobile, Alabama.Come In at the Door is the first novel in that series. Before dawn one morning, little Chester is taken by his nurse, his father's mistress, to the courthouse in Athlestan, a county seat in the Deep South. A sensitive and impressionable boy, Chester watches in horror while one of his father's mixed-race servants is hanged as punishment for killing a hunchback he believed had laid a conjure” on him. The apathy of the townspeople toward the servant's suffering and execution play a vital part in Chester's fascinating development. Throughout his conventional childhood and rambunctious manhood in a port town, the gruesome memory of the Athlestan gallows hovers just below the surface of his mind. He recalls the gruesome details only at his father's death, when the book sweeps forward to its shattering denouement.

William March

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