Threat

The Threattells the darkly comic story of Melvin Levin, a middle-aged man who is dissatisfied with his dull andmediocre life. That is, until he receives a mysterious death threat in the mail. Terrified at first, Levin soon becomesaccustomed to the threatand then, increasingly, delighted with it, thrilled with his newfound importance as athreatened man. But as his obsession with maintaining this identity becomes all-consuming, he risks blindinghimself to the twin dangers of the threat itself andperhaps worsehis own deranged mind.At once absurdist, moving, and savagely funny,The Threatis a timeless parable of the comic lengths to whichpeople go to protect the delusions that validate them.