Gaslighted: Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy vs. Aloysius Pendergast
By Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child and R.L. Stine
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First introduced in R.L. Stine’s 400 million-copy bestselling Goosebumps series, Slappy is a dummy carved from coffin wood who boasts enormous strength and a sarcastic, sadistic personality. In contrast, Agent Pendergast is an elegant, intelligent man who never lets himself be ruffled by the particulars of an investigation. Yet when these two meet for the first time—at Stony Mountain Sanatorium—Pendergast is quite clearly out of his element, and nothing is as it seems…
For more exciting pairs, check out all eleven stories in FaceOff!
Douglas Preston
DOUGLAS PRESTON has published forty books of both nonfiction and fiction, of which thirty one have been New York Times bestsellers, a half-dozen reaching the #1 position. He is the co-author, with Lincoln Child, of the Pendergast series of thrillers. He also writes nonfiction pieces for the New Yorker. He worked as an editor at the American Museum of Natural History in New York and taught nonfiction writing at Princeton University. He is president emeritus of the Authors Guild and serves on the Advisory Board of the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5It's a good Agent Pendergast story, but Slappy doesn't do anything and only appears twice. Under a different name.
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Gaslighted - Douglas Preston
Gaslighted
R. L. Stine, Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
From the anthology FaceOff
Simon & Schuster
New York London Toronto Sydney New Delhi
R. L. STINE
VS. DOUGLAS PRESTON AND LINCOLN CHILD
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child created their character, FBI agent A. X. L. Pendergast, almost by accident. Lincoln was an editor at St. Martin’s Press and had just edited Doug’s first nonfiction book, Dinosaurs in the Attic, a history of the American Museum of Natural History. After that experience, the two decided to write a thriller set in a museum. Doug wrote the first few chapters—involving the investigation of a double murder—and sent them to Lincoln for his opinion. Lincoln read the pages and had one objection. He felt the two cops on the investigation were essentially identical. So he suggested they fold both into the same character (who became Lieutenant Vincent D’Agosta). But then he added, We need a new kind of detective for the second investigator. A person who’s unusual—and who’ll be like a fish out of water in New York City.
Doug, already irritated at this criticism of his prose, responded sarcastically, Yeah, right. You mean, like an albino FBI agent from New Orleans?
Silence passed for a few moments between them.
Then Lincoln said, I think that could work.
Over the next fifteen minutes Special Agent Pendergast was formed, like Athena from the forehead of Zeus.
And the rest, they say, is history.
Over the course of many books Agent Pendergast has faced some unusual adversaries, including cannibalistic serial killers, arsonists, a murderous surgeon, a mutant assassin, and even his own mad-genius brother. But never has he confronted an adversary like Slappy the Ventriloquist Dummy.
Slappy is one of R. L. Stine’s creepiest creations. Bob is one of the best-selling authors of all time, with over 400 million books sold around the world. He is the creator of the amazing Goosebumps series of novels.