The Shining Moment (NY Times grudgingly agrees with National Book Foundation's Stephen King honor)

I agree about Barker's homosexuality in his later novels. I could not finish Imajica. It was horrible. I did not notice it at all in Weaveworld, The Great and Secret Show, Cabal, et. al. I just find that I am much more involved in Barker's story rather than King's. I have read several of King's books. He just doesn't draw me in anymore. His earlier books (Salem's Lot, The Other Half) were good. They just don't have the same after effect that Barker and Straub have.

Have you read Algernon Blackwood. Now, there is a horror writer. Read The Wendigo or The Willows and you will never think about nature the same way. I personally feel that King is overrated. Maybe I was a little too vehement in my criticism. He just does not involve me.

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