Cover art by Roderick Brydon
BOOK DETAILS
Trade paper ISBN-13: 978-1960241443 LIST PRICE: $18.99 PAGES: 220 Published 2025 |
The Fan (1977)
Bob Randall Book Description
Aging movie star Sally Ross and her secretary Belle are amused at first when the Fan's letters start to come. The letters are initially filled with love for the star he worships, then they soon change to fantasies of intimacy with her. But soon, subtly, they become menacing, perverse, obscene, and as the Fan draws closer, the tension escalates and the nerve-racking suspense builds to a shocking and surprising finale.
By turns horrific and darkly humorous and one of the few modern novels written in epistolary format, Bob Randall's The Fan (1977) was a critical hit and a major bestseller on its initial publication and was adapted for a 1981 film starring Lauren Bacall and James Garner. This new edition, the first in decades, allows a new generation of readers to discover this outstanding, one-of-a-kind thriller. 
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REVIEWS
"A virtuoso performance in suspense, full of menace and the threat of violence." - Los Angeles Times
"One of the year's best constructed, panic-on-every-page thrillers." - Chicago Daily News
"A real nail-biter ... works to perfection as it builds to a surprising climax ... the tension is killing." - UPI
"Splendidly unnerving." - Saturday Review
"Grotesque, funny, shocking tour de force ... The suspense increases and the ending is horrible. Fan-tastic." - Irish Times
"The Fan should leave its audiences gasping." - Glamour
"An essay in terror that creeps up as softly as a mugger wearing sneakers ... almost unbearable." - Cosmopolitan
"One of the year's best constructed, panic-on-every-page thrillers." - Chicago Daily News
"A real nail-biter ... works to perfection as it builds to a surprising climax ... the tension is killing." - UPI
"Splendidly unnerving." - Saturday Review
"Grotesque, funny, shocking tour de force ... The suspense increases and the ending is horrible. Fan-tastic." - Irish Times
"The Fan should leave its audiences gasping." - Glamour
"An essay in terror that creeps up as softly as a mugger wearing sneakers ... almost unbearable." - Cosmopolitan