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Cook and Koontz

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Today is July 9. I don’t normally do birthday posts for living writers.

But it’s my blog, and I can do what I want. And I want to acknowledge the birthdays of two of my favoirte writers.

Glen Cook (b. 1944) and Dean Koontz (b. 1945).

Glenn Cook

Glen Cook is the author of the Black Company sereis, the Dread Empire series, The Instrumentalities of the Night series, adn the Garrett, PI series. Along with a number of other novels. If you haven’t read him yet, what are you waiting for?

Dean Koontz needs no introduction. He was been writing for at elast fifty years. I’ve only started reading his work in the last few years, and I regret watiing so long. He’s a writer my writing mentors encourage other writers to study.

So, Mr. Cook and Mr. Koontz, happy birthday!

The Shapes of Midnight by Joseph Payne Brennan

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Shapes of MidnightThe Shapes of Midnight
Joseph Payne Brennan
Berkley, 1980
mass market paperback, $2.25, 176 p.
Introduction by Stephen King

Joseph Payne Brennan has sadly become one of the more neglected writers of fantasy and horror from the second half of the 20th Century.  Fortunately there are were copies of his work available at reasonable prices.  Which is why a couple of weeks ago, after I’d read about half the stories in this book, I bought them.  By reasonable prices, I mean in the $10-25 dollar range for used hardcovers.  (Brennan created an occult detective named Lucius Leffing; I managed to snag a signed collection of some of those stories.)

When I did a search on Advanced Book Exchange for The Shapes of Midnight, the cheapest copy I found (there were only 4 of them at the time) was nearly $60.  Ouch.  Continue reading →