Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart Luke Rhinehart (born George Powers Cockcroft November 15, 1932) is an American novelist and screenwriter, author of eleven books. He is best known for his 1971 novel "The Dice Man," the story of a psychiatrist who experiments with the multiple parts of his personality by making life decisions based on the roll of a die. "The Dice Man" was critically and commercially well received. In 1995, the BBC called it "one of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," and in 1999 "Loaded" magazine named it "Novel of the Century". In 2013,
The Wicker Man (novel) The Wicker Man (novel) The Wicker Man is a 1978 horror novel written by Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer. It was based on the 1973 cult horror film "The Wicker Man", directed by Hardy and written by Shaffer. The novel begins with a quote by Benjamin Disraeli. The film itself is loosely based on the novel "Ritual" by the actor and novelist David Pinner. The novelisation was written primarily by Robin Hardy, the director of the film, but Anthony Shaffer is credited as co-author, as Hardy re-used much of Shaffer's dialogue verbatim. Hardy has said that he began writing the