Davis Grubb

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weird huge scoped looks at a society going crazy and the like threads pulling it along and driving it to this madness but Right now, I'm reading this book called Ancient Light by David Grubb, the guy who wrote The Night of the Hunter, and it was published after his death.

And it's about the Messiah appearing in the near future.

And it's in Appalachia.

So "Night of the Hunter" is the only film directed by acclaimed actor Charles Laughton.

It's based on the 1953 novel of the same name by West Virginian, um, writer Davis Grubb, which was in...

And it was in turn based on the true story of Harry Powers, a serial killer hanged in West Virginia in 1932 for killing two widows and three children.

He operated by answering lonely hearts ads and then killing his victims for their money.

You're like, "Oh my God, that's Icy." [laughs]

Yep.

And it's just, it's just laid out there like, like, like I'm not gonna contextualize this for you because it's clearly, that's the con- that's an obvious continuum for Davis Grubb, for, for Charles Laughton.

Mm-hmm.