Re: RARA-AVIS: Shoot

From: David Bell ( belldj@muohio.edu)
Date: 11 Jan 2000


In his Notes to SKELETON CREW, King admits that he took the first line of SHOOT and used it for his (King's) short novel "The Mist."

Doug Bassett wrote:

> Stephen King, in his DANSE MACABRE, says that SHO0T is
> one of his favorite novels.
>
> doug
> --- pabergin < pabergin@gte.net> wrote:
> > David Bell asked:
> > >Has anyone read a novel called SHOOT by Douglas
> > Fairbairn? Does anyone know
> > >anything about the author?
> >
> > SHOOT is a good, jittery little novel about a
> > hunting trip gone seriously
> > awry. Well worth a look. I remember thinking while
> > reading it that it could
> > be made into a movie almost verbatim. I subsequently
> > learned that it was, in
> > fact, made into a TV movie starring Andy Griffith.
> > I've never seen the film
> > and don't know if it retained the title.
>
> =====
> Doug Bassett
> dj_bassett@yahoo.com
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