Looking to spice up your bedtime reading material? Rain in the Doorway, a raucous, raunchy romp from renowned writer Thorne Smith, is just the ticket. The story follows the boozy shenanigans of Hector Owen. Betrayed by his wife, Owen finds himself wrapped up in a business deal that involves a purveyor of pornographic books. Though seldom sober, Owen and his madcap crew slosh their way through a series of hilarious—and often naughty—misadventures.
Thorne Smith's imaginative novel Skin and Bones takes the concept of suffering for one's art to a whole new level. While developing film, a photographer accidentally creates a chemical concoction that produces an exceedingly bizarre phenomenon—he spontaneously begins to switch back and forth between a normal human appearance and that of a walking skeleton. Can he make a life worth living with this condition?
If you're in the mood for a wildly hilarious comic romp, give Thorne Smith's The Bishop's Jaegars a read. Adrift and listless, a wealthy coffee heir is searching for meaning in life. His secretary decides to shake things up and help him get back on track. Before long, the pair finds themselves at the center of a bizarre coterie of characters who invade a nudist colony.
What happens when a pair of aging adulterers are magically transported back to the bloom of their youth? That's the question at the heart of Thorne Smith's wickedly clever tale, The Glorious Pool. Long-time lovers Rex Pebble and Spray Summers take a dip in a swimming pool and find themselves swimming backwards in time. Being inveterate hedonists, the two take full advantage of their restored nubility.
Also published under the title Topper, The Jovial Ghosts puts Thorne Smith's literary imagination and quirky sense of humor on full display. A mild-mannered professional, Cosmo Topper, finds his life turned upside-down when he encounters a pair of ghosts, George and Marian Kerby. The ghostly couple soon become fast friends with Topper, which turns out to be a pleasant diversion from his passionless marriage and humdrum life.
Author Thorne Smith puts his seemingly boundless imagination to good work in The Night Life of the Gods, a rip-roaring novel that postulates about what would happen if ancient deities were revived and allowed to run wild in the streets of Depression-era New York City. This turn of events comes about when inventor Hunter Hawk devises a method of turning people into stone statues and vice versa.
In The Stray Lamb, author Thorne Smith draws inspiration from his most famous works, the beloved Topper series. In this novel, yet another unhappy banker, T. Lawrence Lamb, experiences a reawakening as the result of a mystical experience—in this case, the sudden ability to take on different animal forms. Lamb uses his newfound powers to fuel a series of madcap misadventures—and even finds love along the way.
This delightfully quirky ghost story is a follow-up to Thorne Smith's most popular novel, Topper. The stories recount a supernatural love triangle of sorts. Staid banker Cosmo Topper's life has settled into a somewhat boring rut when he happens to cross paths with a pair of ghosts who welcome him into their spooky social milieu. This novel follows Topper and his otherworldly chums on a vacation to the French Riviera.
Though Thorne Smith's most popular works involve elements of fantasy and science fiction, the clever novel Turnabout takes his penchant for incorporating supernatural and magical themes in his work and puts one such plot twist to use as a comedic tool. An ancient Egyptian idol grows weary of the seemingly never-ending spats between the Willows, a young married couple, and forces them to switch bodies. As you might expect, hilarious hijinks ensue.
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