December 22, 2008
Today’s special gift is one of my all-time favorite books. If you order today, you still might be able to receive it in time for the holidays — check with the bookstores listed below.
Gary A. Braunbeck is a horror writer who sets so many of his stories in a city called Cedar Hill, Ohio, that cartographers have quietly removed it from the map and dumped it in the “Let’s not talk about it” bin along with Castle Rock, Oxrun Station, Arkham, Jerusalam’s Lot, and Innsmouth to name a few. He is a multiple Bram Stoker Award in many categories. He won awards for both The Night Class
and The Devil’s Wine
. He also wrote one of my favorite horror novels, A Choir of Ill Children
.
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November 16, 2008
For the second installment of our special event Holiday Gifts for the Horror Writer we’re going to look at two gifts by King . . . Stephen King, that is. Probably the most successful horror writer to date, Stephen King has written a few nonfiction books in that same breezy style of his that just sweeps the reader up and carries him or her away. Two of his nonfiction works are what we’ll look at here.
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