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In 2011, the Vancouver-based production house Zest Productions announced executive Scott G. Hyman (500 Days of Summer) had optioned the movie rights to House of Stairs. [2] Montreal-based genre writer Doug Taylor was reported to have been hired to adapt the story, and that Hyman, Michael Glassman and Michael Solomon would produce.
William Warner Sleator III (February 13, 1945 – August 3, 2011), [1] [2] known as William Sleator, was an American science fiction author who wrote primarily young adult novels but also wrote for younger readers. His books typically deal with adolescents coming across a peculiar phenomenon related to an element of theoretical science, then ...
The House of Stairs is a 1988 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published under the name Barbara Vine. [1] Writing in The Washington Post , Michael Dirda referred to the novel as a "stunning suspense [thriller]".
House of Stairs is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher, and it also may refer to: House of Stairs (Sleator novel) , a 1974 science fiction novel by William Sleator The House of Stairs (Vine novel) , a 1988 novel by British writer Ruth Rendell, published under the name Barbara Vine
House of Stairs is a lithograph print by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in November 1951. This print measures 47 cm × 24 cm (18 + 5 ⁄ 8 in × 9 + 3 ⁄ 8 in). It depicts the interior of a tall structure crisscrossed with stairs and doorways. A total of 46 wentelteefje (imaginary creatures created by Escher) are crawling on the ...
"The Other Two" is a short story by Edith Wharton, originally published in Collier’s Weekly on February 13, 1904. It is considered by some critics to be among her best short fiction. [ 1 ] Wharton explores themes of marriage , divorce , and social class through the perspective of businessman Mr. Waythorn, shortly after his marriage to the ...
The story parodies legends of the knights of King Arthur and stars Sir Agravaine, though the character in the story differs greatly from the Arthurian character. Plot. The narrator states that the following story is based on an old blackletter manuscript he found in a friend's ancestral castle, though the narrator has touched up the text a little.
Mr and Mrs Foster are a wealthy married couple living in a six-storey house in New York. Mrs Foster has recently begun to suspect her husband of purposely exacerbating her pathological fear of tardiness. She is continuously badgered by her husband, Eugene, who seems to make a habit of waiting until the last minute to leave the house.