Night-table Reading

Arthur Danto (art critic): The Philosophy of Horror, by Noel Carroll (Routledge). "It's a philosophical discussion of horror films. It's absolutely gripping."

Jackie Collins (author): Vespers, by Ed McBain (Morrow). "What a trip! McBain writes wild and shocking morality tales. The bite is in his humor—the macabre kind. His books are unputdownable."

Richard Golub (lauryer): Circus of Ambition, by John Taylor (Warner). "Taylor appears to be interrupted from his true purpose of depicting me as the Prince of Darkness since he has found other fertile candidates. "

Elizabeth Murray (artist): How War Came, by Donald Cameron Watt (Pantheon). "It's amazing that, with the intelligent men running the world, no one reached out to stop Hitler. This book reveals that they could have done so."