![]() ![]() Having thoroughly enjoyed The Pedestal I read another of the three novels Lanning wrote in his lifetime, but it did nothing for me. Told in the first person, we watch everything in the novel unfold from John's perspective, including the latter parts of the book where we begin questioning just how reliable John is as a narrator. Avon issued a series of red-cover horror paperbacks in the Sixties, and I walked around town with one or another of them jammed in the back pocket of my jeans throughout my late teens. One day, on a lark, they go to an auction and John buys a six-foot pedestal with three delicately carved clawed feet. ![]() Recommended by Ralph Robert Moore 'These last nights, dark has come on the boom of wings.' That’s the opening sentence of Lanning's 1966 novel about John and Eleanor Bayden, wealthy city folk who move to the country after John is released from the hospital. ![]()
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