Murder by Phone: The Novelization

By Jon Messmann

A fresh and innocent girl just off the farm answers the ringing phone in a New York subway station

A harried corporate executive picks up the phone in his private office

A voluptuous young woman pushes aside her lover for the night as she answers the phone at her bedside

A brutish taxi driver takes a call in his rundown flat

And instant death-as a lethal electric charge comes hurtling through the receiver.

Crusading consumer advocate Nate Bridger refuses to believe the chain of coincidences or the answers he is given. He pursues the facts behind the telephone company cover-up and police procedures to discover the awesome, blood-chilling truth. Impossible, they had told him. Impossible, you may tell yourself. But is it?

See what happens to your nerves

WHEN THE PHONE RINGS...

From 1972 through 1985, Michael Butler & Dennis Shryack wrote films that included The Gauntlet, Pale Rider, The Car,

Code of Silence, Murder By Phone (aka Phone Call) and more. Encyclopocalypse Publications is proud to reissue this long-out-of-print novelization of Murder By Phone, now featuring an all-new introduction by Michael Butler.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1966037767
• ISBN13: 9781966037767
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Encyclopocalypse Publications
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.1" x 6.8"