Title: Publish and perish : three tales of tenure and terror /
Authors: Hynes, James.
Publisher: Picador USA,
Year: 1997
Subjects: College teachers United States Fiction.; College stories, American.; Horror tales, American.; Satire, American.; College teachers Fiction.
Abstract: Three novellas set in the academic world. In Queen of the Jungle, an unfaithful husband is betrayed by the family cat, Casting the Runes is on a professor who exposes another's plagiarism, and in 99 an anthropologist's enthusiasm at his discovery of a human-sacrifice cult cools when he realizes he could be the sacrifice. By the author of The Wild Colonial Boy.
Contents: Queen of the jungle -- 99 -- Casting the runes.