The Night Life of the Gods by Thorne Smith

Thackeray Press. Paperback. New. Paperback. 436 pages. Dimensions: 8.5in. x 5.5in. x 0.6in.Hunter Hawk is a quirky, ambitious inventor who invents a device that enables him to turn living matter into stone and reverse the process when he wishes. When he meets the lovely Megaera, who teaches him to turn stone into flesh, they head for New York City to bring the Roman gods of the Metropolitan Museum of Art to life. The Night Life of the Gods was originally published in 1931 and is here being republished with an introductory biography of the author. Thorne Smith was an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction best known for his Topper novels, a comedy fantasy novel about a respectable banker called Cosmo Topper and his misadventures with a couple of ghosts. Smith published ten more novels during his life, trilogy), his most ambitious of which was Dreams End (1927). This item ships from multiple locations. Your book may arrive from Roseburg,OR, La Vergne,TN.