Book I of the Dr. Phibes - The First Trilogy Series; Dr. Phibes tells of the good doctor’s obsession to exact revenge upon the nine victims he believes are responsible for the death of his beautiful wife, Victoria Regina Phibes. Each murder is more macabre and more abominable than the one before, and all of them are carried out according to a bizarre ritual based upon the ten curses of the Old Testament.
William Goldstein is superintendent of schools in Rocky Hill, Connecticut. His experience as a school administrator also includes principalships of a junior high school in Plainview, New York, and two high schools in Trumbull and Weston, Connecticut. He has taught graduate education courses at the University of Connecticut, Hunter College, and Western Connecticut State College. and has also been a visiting lecturer at Wesleyan University. Goldstein received his A.B. in Germanic languages and literatures from Boston University, and his M.A. in English and Ph.D in secon- dary education from the University of Connecticut. In 1978, he received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities to study in the arts at Stanford University. He has published widely in state and national education journals, and is a consulting editor of The Clearing House. He is co-author of Successful School Communications: A Manual and Guide for Administrators (Parker Publishing Co.) which was selected by the American School Board Journal as one of the ten "must" books in education published in 1978. He is author of fastback 146, Confroversial Issues in Our Schools, has served as a fastback author-lecturer for Phi Delta Kappa, and has also lectured widely in the United States and Canada on a variety of educational matters, particularly on better ways of supervising and evaluating educational personnel.