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Originally Posted by wizard of gore
:eek: you really are a king fan,i only tend to read his books when i have nothing else in the book shelf,because i usually know its goin to be a good to average story.theres too many other authers out there to discover.alot of better ones in some aspects.
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I read quite a bit of King in my teens but I have since then read tons of other authors, and yes their are authors out there with just as much to offer as King (Blackwood, Barker, Simmons, Machen, etc.), and a few that surpass him in greatness, but in my opinion only a few that really are greater than King (Poe, Lovecraft). King is the author I always fall back to because he introduced me to horror and weird fiction, I suppose he is like comfort food to me. Their are some authors I haven't got around to reading yet (Ligotti, Le Fanu, Hope Hodgson) and who knows maybe they will be one of the few, I will have to see about that.;)