ORELIA- Salem's Lot. I started reading it but I couldn't get into it though.

I was looking over my Stephen King books this morning, and I saw "The Dead Zone" "Firestarter" and "Bag of Bones" I had forgotten how much I liked all of those books, they were fascinating with thought provoking ideas, but none of them were gory and disgusting. I guess that's why I am hot and cold about Stephen King. I either love his books, or I can't get through them. I like Stephen King, though. In interviews he seems like such a genuinely nice man. It's hard to believe such a normal, sweet acting guy could come up with some of the things he does.

He is genuinely afraid of the dark and things that go bump in the night. He always had a hard time with Hotel rooms because reaching into the dark room to find the switch he just "KNEW" that a hand was going to grab him or a claw or....

You are right some of the stuff he writes is horrifying without the gore or monsters, human nature is some of the best fodder for a good story. I like almost everything he does, he probably could write

His Richard Brachman books are pretty good. Now I am not a writer but I do not understand why he used a different name for them. Everyone that reads his books knows that it is him. Blaze is probably my favorite for the Richard books.

His Bachman books have a somewhat different flavor. They don't usually have a "monster" in them, but rather a "superhuman" They look more toward the darker side of what people can be or do, and rely less on supernatural elements, although those people sometimes have an unnatural ability or two. Blaze was good too, but try "Roadwork, Thinner, The Long Walk, Dolan's Cadillac, or Roadwork" too

I forgot about Dolan's Cadillac... love it. Haven't read Roadwork is it a novel or one of his short stories?

My favorite is THE STAND. I liked UNDER THE DOME a lot, too, though I wish it had been longer. Really!

"Dolan's Cadillac" I forgot about that one, too. What a wonderful, terrifying story that is. I remember I couldn't get it out of my head for weeks after I read it. Maybe it upset me so much because I could really imagine it happening. And "Thinner" was horrifying, too. No monsters in either one of them, but they kept me jumping at sudden sounds for weeks lol.

I loved Skeleton Crew.

Diane I love your pic. I am a huge LOST fan, and I just love Sawyer.