Let's Go Play at the Adams'

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Let's Go Play at the Adams'
Let's Go Play at the Adams' cover.jpg
First edition cover art
AuthorMendal W. Johnson
LanguageEnglish
Genre Horror [1]
Published1974
Publisher Thomas Y. Crowell Co.
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover)
Pages282
ISBN 0-690-00193-2
813/.5/4
LC Class PZ4.J7118 PS3560.O3817

Let's Go Play at the Adams' is a 1974 psychological horror novel by Mendal W. Johnson and originally published by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. Its plot focuses on a group of rural Maryland children who drug, incapacitate, and eventually torture the college student babysitter hired by their parents while they are away in Europe for two weeks. [2]

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Publication

The novel was originally published in the United States by Thomas Y. Crowell Co. [1] In 2020, Valancourt Books republished it in paperback format under its Paperbacks from Hell series, featuring its original mass-market paperback artwork, and including a new introduction by Grady Hendrix. [2] In 2022, Centipede Press issued a hardback edition, with a limited 500 copies signed by Stefan Dziemianowicz and Dan Rempel, who wrote a new introduction. [3]

Reception

The Fort Lauderdale News praised the novel, writing that Johnson "is a master of the art of storytelling and suspense, but this one isn't for the squeamish." [4] Sheryl Friedlander, writing for The Tampa Tribune , compared the novel favorably to The Collector and Lord of the Flies , praising its "style and flow of thought" as "smooth and interesting." [5]

References

  1. 1 2 "Let's Go Play at the Adams'". WorldCat . Archived from the original on November 6, 2023.
  2. 1 2 Benedict, Mark (April 2, 2020). "Book Review: Let's Go Play at the Adams' is a Brutal Lost Classic". Rue Morgue. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023.
  3. ↑ "Let's Go Play at the Adams'". Centipede Press. Archived from the original on November 6, 2023.
  4. ↑ "Tourist Novel is Jet Age 'Grand Hotel'". Fort Lauderdale News . March 10, 1974. p. 8H – via Newspapers.com.
  5. ↑ Friedlander, Sheryl (August 4, 1974). "An Eerie Renewal of an Ancient Question". The Tampa Tribune . p. 5-C – via Newspapers.com.
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