Rick Hautala and David Silva have both passed.

[Carl]

Looked around and didn't see talk of it here. In addition to the Horror world losing Herbert, Rick and Dave have also passed away in the past few days. Both taken too soon.

[Will]

I just downloadedGlimpses: The Best Short Stories of Rick Hautala I have not read anything of is before.

[Carl]

He was really good. Kind of one of the guys who ushered in the new wave, IMO.

[Will]

I'm looking forward to reading it, unfortunately I did not find out about him until after his passing.

[[deleted user]]

I downloaded Glimpses too. Do you recommend any story in particular for Silva? He has a few. I'd like to read something of all three authors - Herbert too - this coming month.

[Andy]

Its a sad reality that a few of the masters are really getting up there in age. King is 65, Dan Simmons is 64, Koontz is 67.

I hope Stephen King lives to be 110 and continues to write for as long as his mind remains sharp.

[Chris]

We were talking about Rick on another post last week after Jon told us that he had passed. You can also visit his website and see quite a few remembrances and have a chance to help out his family.

Rick Hautala a great guy. I think he was the first writer that I talked to on GR. I read Mountain King and asked him a question and we wound up talking about that book and dozens of others. He talked about a writer having the courage to write a book the way that it demanded to be written. I will look for those emails and post them if anyone is interested. Advice from a master.

He loved pulps and we talked about John Carter of Mars and Carson of Venus. He introduced me to James Lee Burke and Joe Lansdale. We talked about the election, holidays, lots of stuff. He won the Bram Stoker lifetime achievement award yet was such a nice and accessible guy and a true fan of dark fiction.

I never met him but he treated me like a friend.

As far as his books I would recommend both The Little Brothers or the more complete edition Untcigahunk, which has some short stories afterward

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10...

I also recommend The Mountain King

http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25...

[Char]

Thanks for sharing what you knew of him, Chris.

I saw you two chatting on a couple of reviews and I thought that was very cool of Rick to do.

[David]

Andrew wrote: "Its a sad reality that a few of the masters are really getting up there in age. King is 65, Dan Simmons is 64, Koontz is 67.

I hope Stephen King lives to be 110 and continues to write for as long..."

It's been a terrible few days for losing some really talented people.