madh0us3 Wrote:It was kind of a strange trip to me being a FPW fan. My first FPW book was Reborn although I don't remember where or when I got it. Especially years ago, my MO was to enter a used bookstore when I was almost out of books and buy an armload of horror paperbacks based in most cases on nothing more than the synopsis on the back and a creepy horror-looking cover, and Reborn was a book that I acquired in this manner.
I read it and really liked it - enough to keep it instead of reselling it to another used bookstore or on ebay. A few years later I rented the Midnight Mass movie and unlike almost everyone else I have ever encountered in real life or on the internet, I enjoyed it. Months later still I saw a Midnight Mass paperback in a grocery store, bought it, and loved it.
It wasn't until much later that I was going through my stacks and made the connection that Reborn had also been written by FPW.
Now I've got a whole stack of his books, both read and unread and I am thoroughly enjoying working my way through them.
Anemone of the State Wrote:The Keep was the first book I had read by FPW, and what a great book to start with.
Now there are just a few books of his that I haven't read :
Virgin, The Tery, Dydeetown World, Mirage, Masque, and Artifact.
The Mad American Wrote:Like you The Keep was the first one for me. I saw the crappy movie and a write up on it in Fangoria and was so intrigued with the concept I hunted up the book. Loved and have never looked back.
The Mad American Wrote:I am down to Virgin and Artifact myself.
The Mad American Wrote:Oh and btw Anemone, welcome to the board!