Sad news for lovers of good writers: author William Hjortsberg has died. His 1978 crime-horror novel Falling Angel is a favorite of mine, and should be one of yours as well.
I have "Nevermore" but haven't read it. It's one of those novels that uses real people fictitiously, which usually bothers me. I think this one is about Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle.
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Sad to read this. Falling Angel is the only book I ever read that used the word 'festooned,' and it's in there twice! Great book. Great author!
Dang, that's a shame. :(
Loved Falling Angel; I even liked the movie version with Mickey Rourke.
That's a shame. Of his work, I've only read "Falling Angel" but it's a superb novel (and, I reckon, much better than the admittedly terrific film).
I love the movie! Rourke is spectacular.
He also wrote a biography of his friend, writer and occasional horrorist Richard Brautigan.
Brautigan in his turn sent at least one reader letter to the MAGAZINE OF HORROR.
We are more than we might seem.
I have "Nevermore" but haven't read it. It's one of those novels that uses real people fictitiously, which usually bothers me. I think this one is about Harry Houdini and Arthur Conan Doyle.
I don't mind it, Padded, but I can see how it could bother some readers.
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