He stopped publishing after Boy's Life because he wanted to
get out of the horror genre, wrote at least one (possibly
two) historical mainstream books (but one involves witchcraft
hysteria/trials, possibly Salem's lot) that no one would pick
up. So he quit. At least until recently -- his witch trial
historical is supposed to be published by a small press later
this year.
But I suspect you knew all that before I typed this.
... Reed
> Just to show that no good idea hasn't already been
explored, there's a
> very tough novel based on the Oz legend (Baum's, not
HBO's) -- Robert
> McCammon's "Gone South," in which an Agent
Orange-poisoned Vietnam vet,
> blamed for a murder not entirely his fault, runs
from the cops into a
> Louisiana swamp. There he picks up an assortment of
weird and damaged
> fellow travelers all seeking a mystical swamp witch
who can possibly
> "cure" them all. It's a terrific book from a writer
who seems to have
> done the unthinkable -- stopped publishing while
still hitting the
> bestseller lists.
>
> Dick Lochte
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