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Robert Marasco (1936-1998) was an American horror writer best known for the 1970 Broadway play Child’s Play. Starring Pat Hingle, the play dealt with demonic doings at a Catholic boys’ school. Arasco drew both on his experience as a teacher of Latin and Greek classics at Regis High School and a newspaper account he had read about a teacher who, after assigning his students some homework, immediately killed himself by jumping out a window.

Robert Marasco (1936-1998) was an American horror writer best known for the 1970 Broadway play Child’s Play. Starring Pat Hingle, the play dealt with demonic doings at a Catholic boys’ school.

One of the scariest and most inventive haunted house novels ever written, Burnt Offerings chronicles the story of Ben and his family, renting a house out in the New York countryside, and the horror that unfolds there In this new edition, William F olan, who wrote the screenplay for the 1976 film directed by Dan Curtis, elucidates why the novel is so effective, and speaks eloquently about his work in adapting the novel for the big screen.

Includes an interior full color piece by Tomislav Tikulin, film stills, original hardcover artwork, and movie posters, most all of it reprinted in color.

Edition Details

• Limited to 150 copies.
• Afterword by William F. Nolan.
• Frontispiece artwork by Tomislav Tikulin.
• Includes a photograph of the author, original hardcover artwork, movie posters, and film stills.
• Head and tail bands, three-piece cloth construction, printed cloth covers, clear Mylar dustjacket.

External Links

• Burnt Offerings. Centipede Press page for Burnt Offerings
• Robert Marasco (ISFDB). ISFDB entry for Robert Marasco