longbowhunter Wrote:When it got to the scene with Santa-Jack....I knew I was hooked. For life.

3rdDeacon Wrote:Thanks for the welcome. Hope it's always out there...

sqwewiiwabbitt Wrote: I remember coming upon both "The Keep" and "The Tomb" in paperback around the same time in 1985.......both my (then)wife and I were avid readers who consumed a huge amount of material while taking care of our multiply handicapped daughter.......constant trips to the hospital and the waiting involved require a fully stocked bag o' books for sanity maintenance.........and although they were not completely to her tastes I spent a couple of Saturday nights both reading,and then re-reading them............LOVED Jack right off the bat and years later,with a copy of "Hosts" snagging my attention from the new releases rack....my interest evolved into the addiction it is now with a fevered bout of "find any F.Paul Wilson available and devour it" as its' main symptom...........ahem(uurp!)........most tasty....:arf:

KRW Wrote:So, what's it gonna take? I'll help... again.

Srem Wrote:I agree about the FPW Compendium.

There's a book that cross-references all of the places, names/people, creatures, etc. that have been present at one time or another in Stephen King's literary multiverse.

Wapitikev Wrote:Already started indexing the Keep...stuck 1/2 way when free time dried up. Index will grow to all Adversary Cycle works as time allows. Will definitely need help along the way, Ken, adding things that got missed and tweaking things that didn't.

I'll add each one individually to Stephanie's Wiki, so everyone can read it there.

The effort will continue...probably be done in time for FPW not to need it any more (after the 15th Jack book, 2 years from now).

-Wapitikev

3rdDeacon Wrote:I was introduced to the Adversary universe in an unusual way. In my late teens, I was in college and perusing their library. I saw a novel called "The Keep" and decided to read it.

I checked the book out of the library, and let it sit in my locker. A couple of days later, I had some time and decided to read it in the lobby where our classes gathered.

Another student saw the novel, and asked me if I "had gotten to the part where the face appears out of the darkness, and then a hand grabs the heroine"?

I stated "No, I really haven't started reading it yet."

She went on to tell me that she had read this novel and it scared the living daylights out of her.

That got my interest.

Finished the novel within the week, reading it whenever I got the chance.

I just was captured by this novel, and would re-read it many times over. Even saw the movie of it. (Poor, poor, F. Paul Wilson.) What a travesty that was.

Anyway, quite a few years later, I was in a used bookstore with my wife. I was looking for copies of any books by Clive Cussler (My then favourite author), and I came upon another book by F.P. Wilson. The novel was a paperback of "Nightworld".

Read the back of the book, and thought it sounded intriguing. What was the author of "The Keep" writing about know.

Imagine my complete surprise as I discovered that this was the final episode in the Adversary Cycle. This novel would go on to haunt me figuratively and literally (I hate milli- and centipedes).

I only really got into the Adversary Cycle and RJ series a couple years ago, and couldn't put them down.

I am not a full fledged fan of both series, having purchased all the RJ books to date, and acquired the Borderlands Press editions of the Adversary Cycle.

As well, I've dipped my collective mind into other works of F. Paul Wilson and really appreciate his scope of collective fiction.

I think this will do for my first post. Glad I finally came onto this board. :cheers: