Thorne Smith

Topper by Thorne Smith Whenever I have started a book by the Annapolis-born author Thorne Smith, I have had no idea where the imagination and ribald humor of this great fantasist would be taking me. In my first experience with Smith, 1931’s The Night Life of the Gods, I was introduced to inventor Hunter Hawk, who, along with the Fury Megaera, released a passel of Roman deities from their statuary confinement.

The Glorious Pool by Thorne Smith In Ron Howard’s 1985 film Cocoon, a group of seniors becomes rejuvenated as a result of taking a dip in a swimming pool whose waters had been infused with “life force” by some extraterrestrial visitors. But as it turns out, this was not the first time that some aged adults had discovered a Fountain of Youth of sorts in such a place.