Lively, entertaining reviews of, and essays on, old and newer films and everything relating to them, written by professional author William Schoell.

Thursday, March 31, 2022

POSTHUMOUS

POSTHUMOUS

My latest thriller, for people who love movies, celebrities, psychos, and suspense fiction, is entitled POSTHUMOUS. Below is a description. It's available in hardcover, trade paperback, and inexpensive kindle editions on amazon.

"Anna Corrigan, the daughter of the late movie star and entertainer Mavis Edwards, has spent years trying to deal with the emotional fall out from the decades she spent with her often difficult and neurotic mother. Anna attends her sister Estelle's singing showcase at a tiny supper club uptown, where she encounters some of her mother's "friends" from the past. These include a crooked business manager named Louie Mayhew; her old co-star Jerry Giddings, who has fallen on hard times; her bitchy rival Marjorie Easterbrook; choreographer “Busy” Borroway, an unrepentant child molester who numbered Mavis Edwards among his victims; and George Kelker, a director who refused to hire Mavis Edwards for an important production many years before. George is only the first of these individuals to be horribly murdered by a crazed female intruder who, Kelker's wife insists, looks just like Mavis Edwards! There had always been nutty stories in the tabloids about Mavis Edwards being alive and hidden in a sanitarium and with all these reports of a crazy lady who resembles her beginning to surface, Anna wonders if it could possibly be true. But as the murders continue and Anna finds her life unraveling, she learns that the truth is far more terrible than she could ever even imagine."

"POSTHUMOUS is a movie lover's thriller, dissecting one impossible star's neurotic behavior and the effect it has even years later on her children."

Is "Mavis Edwards" meant to be Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Judy Garland, or someone else? Read the book to find out!  

4 comments:

angelman66 said...

Just bought it from Amazon, Bill. Looks like wonderful fun. Can't wait to read!!

William said...

Thank you so much, Chris! I had fun writing it and I hope you enjoy it.

angelman66 said...

Bill, just stopping back to say I really enjoyed the book! What a hoot, couldn’t put it down and was sorry when it was over. Too much fun!! Bravo!
- Chris

William said...

Thank you so much, Chris! Years ago, when the bottom dropped out of the horror market and I was seen as a "horror" writer, my agent at the time had trouble selling this -- even though it wasn't horror per se. But I always thought it was a viable and fun book so I'm glad it's in print. Thanks again for reading it and for your kind words! Much appreciated!