Maybe I'll Call Anna

by William Browning Spencer

It's a hot summer night in a small town in North Carolina. A pretty girl named Anna Shockley has arrived in the emergency room after a drug overdose.

And so, David Livingston, emergency room orderly, fledgling artist, and incorrigible romantic, meets the obsession of a lifetime.

When he moves into the communal house where Anna lives, David soon discovers that Anna Shockley is dangerous to herself and others--and that there are those around her, drawn by the "doomed shout" of her beauty, who are far more dangerous.

Winner of a New American Writing Awards, Maybe I'll Call Anna is a novel of obsession and suspense in which madness, betrayal, and the machinations of a cunning, powerful murderer keep the reader turning pages as a compelling story of love and revenge unfolds.

Genres: Fiction

216 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1990

About the author

William Browning Spencer is an award-winning American novelist and short story writer living in Austin, Texas. His science fiction and horror stories are often darkly and surreally humorous. His novel Resume With Monsters conflates soul-destroying H. P. Lovecraftian horrors with soul-destroying lousy jobs.
His story "The Death of the Novel" was a 1995 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Best Short Story.

Reviews

[Paul Darcy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as, Resume with Monsters,

but a disturbingly fun read nonetheless.

3.2 stars.

[Dale · Rating 4 out of 5]

I can't think of any other writer as good as Spencer whose books are this hard to find. I finally tracked down an old public library copy of this and was it ever worth the hunt!

[Lola · Rating 3 out of 5]

Crazy, obsessive, calculating....Anna and the men in love with her;
a "different" kind of book.