I was just curious (and perhaps other forum members are, also) as to which F. Paul Wilson book was your first?
How old were you when you read it?
Why did you read it?
Inquiring minds want to know how you got hooked...

Sincerely,
Srem

Here's my story on how it all started:
In 1985 (I was 13 and on summer break from school) my father brought me along on one of his "construction excursions." It was a cold, rainy day and due to the fact that I was too young to operate the heavy machinery needed to build the new indoor tennis court he was working on, I got stuck sitting in his cramped Toyota truck all day.
Sensing my boredom, he gave me some money and said I could go get whatever I wanted from the brand new mini-mart that had popped up next to the tennis court's construction site. After walking around the mini-mart for awhile, and armed with the usual kid-fare of soda pop and candy, I drifted over to the bookstand. Deciding that there was nothing of interest for a 13 year-old kid in the stand, I almost walked away, then my eyes suddenly fell on a creepy-looking greenish-yellow novel with the words THE TOMB emblazoned on the front cover. This was the first soft-back printing of the book, and it was larger than anything I had ever read, but I decided after studying the teaser on the back I was ready for the challenge.
I read and re-read the book several times over the course of 8 years, not realizing that after I had already bought and read another novel titled Nightworld, that this was part of a six-book collection called "The Adversary Cycle." From there I proceeded to painstakingly hunt down and collect the rest of the out-of-print series, which is still one of my favorites to this day.

The end of my story is a tragic one, however, as the worn but still intact remains of my first sentimental copy of The Tomb was torn to shreds by my ex-roommate's pet Beagle. No other book was touched. How could this be, I wondered in anguish?
My only thought was to conclude to the possibility that this vicious excuse for a dog had been touched by the Otherness...:confused:

I borrowed The Tomb and after reading it, became a convert to anything The Man has written. For some reason, before less than a year ago, I somehow had not run across any of his works before.

There are still a few books I haven't read yet, but as time goes on, I become closer to having read just about everything FPW has written.

I red The Keep because I saw the movie. I'm obviously glad I did. Next was The Touch, then The Tomb. With a trio like that it's hard not to become a fan.

The movie The Keep led me to the book. And as I have said in a similar thread...long ago...the rest is history.

The movie The Keep led me to the book. And as I have said in a similar thread...long ago...the rest is history.

Oh, I was gonna ask you if you saw the movie first. That is why you like it. I find that if i see the movie then read the book I remember the movie as having the parts that are not in the movie .. so it works out well.
I dont dislike the movie, but I do remember being disappointed.


so The Keep was actually my first FPW book.

I saw the film The Keep when I was a kid, and then was searching eBay for a DVD copy and found that The Keep was based on a book which was the first part of a six novel sequence. I got the DVD and the book, then read the rest of the Adversary Cycle, then read the RJ books up to Bloodline.

I just borrowed a copy of An Enemy of the State off a friend, and although I havent finished it yet (various jobs are keeping me very busy) I am thinking that I'll probably try and read the LaNague books next.

My brother read The Keep. Then he demanded that I read it. Then he came across a Jack short story in some collection he had. Then we found The Tomb. And yeah, the rest is history.

A friend had "The Keep" and "The Tomb" and I borrowed them and read them both, but cannot remember which order. That would have been around 1985 when I would have been 13-14 years old. I think it must have been "The Keep" 1st. Yep, then "The Tomb" 2nd because I kept thinking what a terrific character Jack was and would make a great series....

Long story short. Six years ago I found a copy of The Tomb in a dollar store. I thought it sounded interesting - different from the usual junk - so I bought it for $1.00. Got hooked. Now have almost an entire bookcase devoted to nothing but The Man.

Long story short. Six years ago I found a copy of The Tomb in a dollar store. I thought it sounded interesting - different from the usual junk - so I bought it for $1.00. Got hooked. Now have almost an entire bookcase devoted to nothing but The Man.

I don't remember when exactly, but either my wife or I found a copy of THE KEEP at the book exchange on Catalina Island.

I'm not a horror fan, but I REALLY enjoyed that novel (there were characters in it I really cared about.)

The same with THE TOMB, which I/we found next.

Then came NIGHTWORLD.

After those three novels, I looked all over for anything that FPW had written, and found DYDEETOWN WORLD and the other books in the LaNague series.

About this time, the second RJ novel (LEGACIES) was published, and I was hooked.

Again, I'm not a horror fan, but RJ struck me as a sort of mysterious avenger. He has a powerful sense right and wrong, and a strong sense of honor. He also has many of the qualities of a villian, but he's on "our" side. He has his "dark side," but he uses it to do good.

How "cool" is that!

Ken V.