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Scott-robert Shenkman It's odd - I used to love Dean Koontz and then one day in the mid-90's I started to feel like I could map out his books and know how it would all work out. I stopped reading him. The same happened with Grisham, but he isn't horror. And after being hit my the car, KIng became...tame. He couldn't pull off another Stand or Shining. And Peter Straub gave up horror altogether (though I will maintain untll my last day that Ghost Story is the finest horror ever written.

I think your books follow the true horror outline in a way. Not that they are horror, but that we know there is probably a physical menace out there and we're just waiting for him/her to strike. But we also know there's at least one killer emotional menace coming, yet we forget to be on guard for it. And then it hits and it bowls us over. I'm sure you know what dangers I'm referring to in Law of Moses, but they are there in every book for me so far.


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