PETER STRAUB - SOME THOUGHTS.

As a horror writer, it's particularly sad to consider that Straub, Blatty and Herbert have all left the field now. Pillars in the youthful reading of my generation.

A fabulous writer and his Houses Without Doors is one of the best collections I've read, across all genres. If the house was ablaze, I'd grab this on my way out the back door. I think A Dark Matter, his last novel, is particularly under appreciated too.

He was, simply, a great writer. One of the fields finest, whose books often took me a while to finish, because I'd continually pause to marvel at a sentence, turn of phrase, description, or insight.