The Fan
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Aging movie star Sally Ross and her secretary Belle are amused at first when the Fan's letters start to come. The letters are initially filled with love for the star he worships, then they soon change to fantasies of intimacy with her. But soon, subtly, they become menacing, perverse, obscene, and as the Fan draws closer, the tension escalates and the nerve-racking suspense builds to a shocking and surprising finale.
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By turns horrific and darkly humorous and one of the few modern novels written in epistolary format, Bob Randall's The Fan (1977) was a critical hit and a major bestseller on its initial publication and was adapted for a 1981 film starring Lauren Bacall and James Garner.
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