Between my web page, FaceBook, this blog, Patreon and just writing in general, I'm needing material to write, so here's something a bit random:
I remember it was the 1960s . . . kids at school passed around a rumor that there was a book in the school library about monsters -- not some silly "101 Monster Jokes" book, or a Scholastics paperback 40 pages long, but an actually heavy, hardback book about MONSTERS! But adult books weren't ever about fun things like that! I kept trying to check it out, but somebody always got it before I did. Finally I got this weird title: Alfred Hitchcock's Monster Museum! And the rest was history.
It was my introduction to Silver John with "Desrick on Yandro." The next was "O Ugly Bird" in Red Skelton's Favorite Ghost Stories. Finally, I went to college, and found Who Fears the Devil? -- the original Arkham House version -- in the library.
And -- why not? -- a link to one of my own Silver John stories: "Away Down the Road a Piece"
