The film""s screenplay was adapted by Frank S.Nugent (director Ford""s son-in-law) from Alan Le May""s 1954 novel of the same name, that was first serialized as a short story in late fall 1954 issues of theSaturday Evening Post, and first titledThe Avenging Texans.Cursed like Katie Bell had been, Slughorn was planning to give the entire bottle of mead to Dumbledore as a gift, not realizing that the mead had lethal poison mixed in with it, and it would have killed the Headmaster.The FBI planned to pull the suspected ad and replace it with one of their own, to set a trap for the serial killer "Tooth Fairy" ("Mementoes for you at Baltimore Central Left Luggage...then he""s still there."Film Notables (Awards, Facts, etc.)The film was filled with horror-film cliches, such as spooky music (screeching violins similar toPsycho""s and Bernard Hermann""s soundtrack), false alarms, crazed characters, red herrings, dead phone lines, sex before death, cat-and-mouse style killings, premonitions of terror, subjective ("point-of-view") camera work stalkings, a terrific rainstorm, the concluding boo-moment (similar toCarrie (1976)), a Friday the 13th full-moon, etc.