Terrifying. . . . A Dark Matter is populated with vivid, sympathetic characters, and driven by terrors both human and supernatural. It's the kind of book that's impossible to put down once it has been picked up. It kept me reading far into the night. Straub builds otherworldly terror without ever losing touch with his attractive cast of youngsters, who age beautifully. Put this one high on your list.

There's nothing like stories on a windy night when folks have found a warm place in a cold world.

I think most of us are fascinated by the macabre and by the weird and even the nastiness that comes along.

Marriage is referred to in the bible as “mystical union,” and it really is in the sense that two people who don’t know each other get together. I’m always interested in how much you find out about the other person and how much you don’t find out.

Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses.

I love music, and I can play a little. But anyone can see the difference between someone who's talented and someone that's not.

Hemingway sucks. If I set out to write that way, it would have been been hollow and lifeless because it wasn't me.