The Executioner's Song (film) this work. "Time Out- London" said about the film's performances: "Jones (playing Gilmore) goes his own fascinating route to the loser's nirvana without recourse to psycho-style tics, while strong character performances from Arquette and Lahti constantly shift the focus back towards the everyday straitjacket of Utah underdogs." The Executioner's Song (film) The Executioner's Song is a 1982 made-for-television film adaptation of Norman Mailer's 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name. The film is directed by Lawrence Schiller from a screenplay by Mailer. The movie is about the final nine months of the life of Gary Gilmore, beginning with his
The Death of Halpin Frayser Halpin and his mother fled separately west, they lived as man and wife in California (although there is no indication of this in Bierce's text). S. T. Joshi went even further by claiming that it was Frayser who "killed his wife/mother but she came back from the dead as he lurked by her grave". According to Maclean, Halpin's murderer was no other than "his own father, disguised as the private detective Jaralson". The story has been viewed as "perhaps Bierce's most remarkable supernatural tale" and a key precursor of zombie fiction. In 1927, H. P. Lovecraft included "The Death of