Ma questa vita deliziosa sta per essere spazzata via dall'arrivo di Elliot Hoover il quale, dopo averli spiati per alcune settimane (e dopo aver girovagato per l'India molti anni), li incontra e si dichiara certo che in Ivy alberghi lo spirito di Audrey Rose, la figlia di Hoover scomparsa insieme a sua madre in un tragico incidente proprio il giorno della nascita di Ivy. Infine la loro unica figlioletta, Ivy, è un amore di bambina. He lives in Los Angeles.Bill e Janice Templeton sono una coppia che sembra avere tutto dalla vita: lui ha un ottimo lavoro, vivono in uno splendido appartamento in un palazzo lussuoso e dalla storia importante, hanno amici con cui passare il tempo, un notevole gusto per l'opera e la loro vita sessuale, dopo così tanti anni, è ancora ragguardevole sia per quanto riguarda la quantità che la qualità. Other successes include the novel Golgotha Falls (1984) and the cult classic horror film Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981), directed by De Felitta.įrank De Felitta’s most recent work is L’Opera Italiano, published as an e-book in 2012. The Entity (1978), based on the real-life case of a woman named Doris Bither who claimed to have been haunted by a spectral rapist, was also a bestseller and was adapted by De Felitta for a 1982 film starring Barbara Hershey.

This novel, a horror story involving reincarnation, was a smash bestseller, selling more than 2.5 million copies and spawning a successful 1977 film adaptation (scripted by De Felitta) and a sequel, For Love of Audrey Rose (1982). He continued to write radio scripts before turning to television, in which medium he was successful as a writer, producer, and director, winning Emmy nominations in 19 for his documentaries as well as a Peabody Award and several Writers Guild nominations.ĭe Felitta’s first novel, Oktoberfest (1973), a thriller, though not a bestseller nonetheless earned him enough to finance the year and a half he devoted to his next-and most famous-book, Audrey Rose (1975). His first effort, for the weekly radio program The Whistler, a popular thriller series, earned him $350 and started him on his writing career. He served as a pilot in World War II and in 1945 returned to New York, where he began to write scripts. Frank De Felitta was born in New York in 1921.

Audrey Rose by Frank De Felitta