All the "miscegenation" and therefore titillation was removed, the setting changed to Bayou Louisiana, and the acting exactly what you'd expect from a 1970s TV film. The TV movie is only tangentially related to the book. It passed an afternoon, and it was less than memorable until I saw that the author died. It was a mediocre un-horrifying horror novel or a middling police procedural, raised above the run of the mill insofar as it ever was, by the Mississippi setting and the daring for the times interracial sex and romance. The novel, an ancient paperback copy of which I've had for a zillion years, is an artifact of a bygone age. 3) Author Whitten died at 89 on 1 December 2017. 2) The made-for-ABC movie from 1972 is one of those really crummy movies of the week that ABC was (in)famous for in the 1970s, the Friday night teens-and-tweens monster flicks. Well, a few things to discuss: 1) The 1967 novel's perfectly adequate and not one whit better than it needs to be.
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