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In this story William Sloane has equalled if not surpassed the shivery excitement of his first novel, To Walk the Night. Told by a young psychologist, this mystery-horror tale follows the adventures of the narrator in a remote farm on the Kennebec River. Against a normal enough background events begin to take on shapes of terror, with a tinge of the Unknown. There is a chill wind blowing
—hints of things beyond the borderland of the natural-and there are the strangely believable researches of a half-mad electro-physicist looking for a way to communicate with the dead. The tender love story of Dick and Anne adds an unexpected poignancy and charm.
In reviewing The Edge of Running Water, The New York Times said, "It has suspense, ingenuity. and more important still, an air of plausibility..."; and The New York Sun, in writing of William Sloane, adds
*. It is as if Edgar Allan Poe had written one of his horror tales in the style of Ernest Hemingway.
Illinois, and, finally, in Calitornia. In 192g he was graduated from Princeton, and the next fall started to work for Longmans, Green and Company. Following this, he spent five years managing the Fitzgerald Publishing Corporation, and there began his first novel (To Walk the Night) "dur ing one of those slack business periods which the thirties produced at such regular intervals." From Fitzgerald, Sloane went to Farrar and Rinehart. His second novel (The Edge of Running Water) was finished on weekends and in the evenings after long days at their office, where he was an associate editor. This book, the author adds, "grew out of a couple of very pleasant summers that my wife and I spent some years ago in a magnificent old house on the banks of the Kennebec River. The mechanics of it were suggested by the efforts of men like the late Sir Oliver Lodge to prove by scientific means that life after death is a reality." William Sloane is married and has three children. He began to work at Henry Holt and Company in December of 1938. In the summer of 1943 he went to China, a volunteer on a mission sponsored by the Book Publishers' Bureau of the OWI.
He writes, "My wife and I live in the country, in Rockland County, where I manipulate a pretty large vegetable gar-den, an extremely immature fruit orchard, and several beds of azaleas, my favorite shrub but not one that I seem to be very successful at raising."