Inspiration

Each of these novels is a singular work that kept the fire going on those nights the winds blew coldest, and for many nights thereafter...

The Hollow Man, Dan Simmons
The Bad Place, Dean Koontz
The Long Walk, Richard Bachman
Imajica, Clive Barker
Slow Motion Riot, Peter Blauner
Light Years, James Salter
Dr. Neruda’s Cure for Evil, Rafael Yglesias
Mephisto in Onyx, Harlan Ellison
The Magus, John Fowles
Bones of the Moon, Jonathan Carroll
Red, Jack Ketchum
101 Reykjavik, Hallgrimur Helgason
The Fermata, Nicholson Baker
Ham On Rye, Charles Bukowski
The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
Ask the Dust, John Fante
Afterburn, Colin Harrison
Train, Pete Dexter
MVP, James Boice
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn

 

These writers are the big dogs who spoke not just through their work, but also offered their time, comments, and advice to a puppy still wetting his papers. Their hearts are exceeded in size only by their talents.

Marlys Millhiser
Adam Rapp
Scott Nicholson
Dan Simmons
Robert Gandt
Jacquelyn Mitchard
Peter Blauner