![]() ![]() It's the same New York encountered by anyone who's seen the pilot episode of the first of the Law & Orders, "Everybody's Favorite Bagman." And the Wolfen, themselves, are a treat among treats. Strieber also does a very good job of keeping the New York of Tom Wolfe's _The Bonfire of the Vanities_'s era well-preserved in amber. In several pieces of writing, King says that Strieber is a better writer than King, himself, is. I took the recommendation, and I am not sorry I did. ![]() The King who wrote _Danse Macabre_ is the King who wrote vivid, inspired updates of Lovecraft and resettings/updates of William Hope Hodgson (for instance, Bobbi Anderson and her dog, Peter, who are clearly direct descendants of Hodgson's unnamed character/narrator, The Recluse, and his dog, Pepper, from _The House on the Borderlands_). Strieber's work was recommended in Stephen King's _Danse Macabre_, his meditation upon archetypal horror stories and horror story elements. Lately, I've been tentatively dipping into the vast pool of the works of writers who sell snake oil of a kind, but whose every dose sold is reputed to be decanted to a well-crafted vial of a book, from an aged oak (or whatever wood is supposed to be best for the storage of snake oil) barrel of a mind. I've always had a problem with people who go along with crap like Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind (i.e., abduction by the crew of a UFO, by space aliens). ![]()
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