The Siege of Trencher's Farm main characters are again named David and Amy Sumner. In this adaptation the besiegers die in a variety of violent ways. Williams received royalties for the remake. The Siege of Trencher's Farm The Siege of Trencher's Farm (1969) is a psychological horror/thriller novel by Scottish author Gordon Williams. It was first published by Secker & Warburg, and is better known for the 1971 film adaptation "Straw Dogs" (starring Dustin Hoffman) by Sam Peckinpah. A remake of that film (Straw Dogs (2011 film)) under the same name was made to less favourable reviews, both films bearing little resemblance to the novel.
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket 1969 novel "A Void", notable for not containing a single letter "e", contains an e-less rewriting of Poe's "The Raven" that is attributed to Arthur Gordon Pym in order to avoid using the two "e"s found in Poe's name. On May 5, 1974, author and journalist Arthur Koestler published a letter from reader Nigel Parker in "The Sunday Times" of a striking coincidence between a scene in Poe's novel and an actual event that happened decades later: In 1884, the yacht "Mignonette" sank, with four men cast adrift. After weeks without food, they decided that one of them should be