The Inheritors (Golding novel) Neanderthal, of whom they are simultaneously afraid and enamoured, hinting at the later hypothesis of inter-breeding between Neanderthals and modern humans. The book, particularly the last chapter, was the inspiration for the song "A Trick of the Tail" by British rock band Genesis. The Inheritors (Golding novel) The Inheritors is a work of prehistoric fiction and the second novel, published in 1955, by the British author William Golding, best known for "Lord of the Flies". It concerns the extinction of one of the last remaining tribes of Neanderthals at the hands of the more sophisticated "Homo sapiens". This novel is
Lord of the Flies and Jack Caine as "Simon". Many writers have borrowed plot elements from "Lord of the Flies". By the early 1960s, it was required reading in many schools and colleges. Stephen King's fictional town of Castle Rock, inspired by the fictional mountain fort of the same name in "Lord of the Flies", in turn inspired the name of Rob Reiner's production company, Castle Rock Entertainment, which produced the film "Lord of the Flies" (1990). Stephen King got the name Castle Rock from the fictional mountain fort of the same name in "Lord of the Flies" and used the name to refer