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Adam wrote:
Here's something on "The Haunted Boardinghouse," which I had intended to post earlier but never got around to. In your excellent post on the similarities between THB and LITTLE, BIG, there was one you missed, iirc. The protagonist of THB is named Enan Bradford. Smoky Barnable's real first name, with which he signs his letter to Santa, is Evan ("Letters to Santa, II, 4, p. 166 of the Bantam trade paperback). So the protagonists are Evan Barnable and Enan Bradford.
Page 193 in a Bantam paperback. Hey, that =is= spooky!
The full name on that page is "Evan S. Barnable": remind me, was his dad named Evan? Do we have evidence that his dad called him Smoky, and that Smoky is what the "S" stands for; or is Smoky just his hippie handle? (When I think of his family I just remember his five uncles and the way he and his dad would move from one uncle's house to the other . . . states beginning with the letter I, that whole thing.)
=mantis=