Martins Press published 18 of his short stories in a book collection titled You Never Believe Me and Other Stories. His novel Ancient Lights was published posthumously in 1982, and St. Some of Grubb's short stories were adapted for television by Alfred Hitchcock and by Rod Serling for his Night Gallery series. His 1969 novel Fools' Parade would also be made into a motion picture starring James Stewart. Grubb went on to write a further nine novels and several collections of short stories.

Deemed 'culturally significant' by the Library of Congress, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry. That same year, the book was made into a motion picture that is now regarded as a classic. The Night of the Hunter became an instant bestseller and was voted a finalist for the 1955 National Book Award. Influenced by accounts of economic hardship by depression-era Americans that his mother had seen first hand as a social worker, Grubb produced a dark tale that mixed the plight of poor children and adults with that of the evil inflicted by others.

In the mid 1940s he was successful in selling several short stories to major magazines and in the early 1950s he started writing a full length novel.

In 1940, Grubb moved to New York City where he worked at NBC radio as a writer while using his free time to write short stories. He did, however, make a number of drawings and sketches during the course of his career, some of which were incorporated into his writings. However, his color blindness was a handicap he could not overcome and he gave up on painting to dedicate himself to writing fiction. OL4793565W Page_number_confidence 95.67 Pages 210 Partner Innodata Pdf_module_version 0.0.18 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20220407104446 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 356 Scandate 20220405023112 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781596542297 Tts_version 4.Born in Moundsville, West Virginia, Grubb wanted to combine his creative skills as a painter with writing and as such attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Urn:lcp:nightofhunter0000grub_i6f3:epub:16115e27-cd7a-43cd-88df-4cd6efbeafa1 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier nightofhunter0000grub_i6f3 Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s28tkbzgjdn Invoice 1652 Isbn 1596542292ĩ781596542297 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001036 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 05:06:44 Autocrop_version 0.0.11_books-20220331-0.2 Bookplateleaf 0002 Boxid IA40426722 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

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