THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (273 pp.]—Davis Grubb—Harper ($3). Hing, hang, hung! See what the hangman done; Hung, hang, king! See the robber swing . . . All the kids in the Ohio River town of Cresap’s ...
THE WATCHMAN, by Davis Grubb (275 pp.; Scribner; $3.95), is the latest of the author’s marrow-chilling tales of good and evil, written in a style compounded of Hans Christian Andersen imaginativeness ...