If chronicle had gone a bit other than , John Steinbeck might have been numerate aright alongside Bram Stoker andMary Shelleyas one of lit ’s greathorror writers . One of the author ’s other work was a werewolf mystery novel titledMurder at Full Moon . The book was never issue , and now rooter are petition for its posthumous sack , The Guardianreports .
Steinbeck was a struggle author when he pennedMurder at Full Moon . Publishers rejected the story in 1930 , about a decade before his American classicThe Grapes of Wrathhit shelves . The 233 - varlet unpublished manuscript now sits in the archives of the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas in Austin .
The novel focuses on a California town terrorise by a string of murders that only come about during the full moon . investigator distrust a supernatural being is responsible for the grisly death . As the story unfolds , a newsman , an unpaid detective , and the manager of a local gun club get caught up in the mystery .
Professor Gavin Jones — who specializes in American literature at Stanford University — and Steinbeck biographer William Souder are among those in the literary community asking for the book of account to be publish posthumously . Though there ’s spate of involvement in an unpublished werewolf chronicle from the renowned realist , rooter will in all probability be waiting a while to study it . Steinbeck ’s literary agents , McIntosh & Otis , told the Observer : " As Steinbeck wroteMurder at Full Moonunder a anonym and did not select to publish the study during his lifetime , we preserve what Steinbeck had wanted . "
Murder at Full Moonis far from the only narrative Steinbeck did n’t have publish during his lifetime . In 1958 , the author started a book ground on King Arthur calledThe turn of King Arthur and His Noble Knights , but he abandoned the project in 1959 . The unfinished work would eventually bepublished in 1976 , eight years after Steinbeck passed away . Here aremore facts about the author .
[ h / tThe Guardian ]
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