Welcome aboard, it's a pleasure to have you here. By all means pull up a chair and get comfortable!

Hey, SP. I am similar to you in a way. I started reading Deathlands at 15 and am now 31 and I started collecting but then sold but now have the whole collection( at least up until lets see let me look at my shelf......Lost Gates, uh ohh, a trip to Amazon.com is in order for Havens Blight and Hell Road Warriors.) Anyway, DIEE HARDDD Deathlands fan, good to have you here and that is cool that Mr. James sent you that signed book( Good book with great artwork.) What is your favorite and least favorite DL books. My least favorite is a toss up between Demons of Eden(I am going to get crap for this one, SP, WATCH, but too fantasy for me and Shaking Earth, if there ever was a boring DL book, but I still like these two, but they are my least. My favorite is Bloodlines, its just because where I was at and the atmosphere really eerily went with the book and I am also a Stephen King fan and let me just say. Mr. James has been known to creep me out more than Stephen King. (Two other spooky scenarios were Road Wars the hermit in that town was wild and the creatures in Twighlight Children would have been perfect in Mr. Kings The Mist. Anyway glad to have you.  And by the way, let me test you just for fun trivia see how much you know hey quiz me too. ( I have not read about 45-50 Dl titles you can probably get me on a lot of stuff I love this site. Thank you Mr. James, Mr. Miles, Mr. Ellis, and Mr.Philipson anyway here is my fun trivia HAHA!! : who is Joseph Jordan? Cort Strasser? Gert Wolfram?

It is peculiar that you would mention the similarities in Steven Kings writing with that of Laurence James. As that was my question that he respoded to me about as I asked him if he used Steven Kings references and Idea's from in his books and He says he had from the beginning. Myself being a huge fan of Kings and living in the same city I practically grew up and around him my whole life.

 

On a side note I used to cook for S. King a few times a week at a local pub I worked at in down town Bangor Maine.'

I guess I'll have to post the letter as it strikes me as quite a coincidence that you would mention it.

 

I'll answer your other questions a little later, and thanks!

 

 

 

Well Cort Strasser is infamously sadistic and Doc's tormentor of course. Also well know for slitting his own throat while sinking in quicksand if I recall correctly. The other 2 I remember but dis-recall what books they were in right now. Gert stands out to me a little more though...

You use to cook for S King!? Cool!!  We will not discuss S King novels as this is a James Axler site( I knew there was some sort of influence) but may I ask what your favorite S King STORY and well scary novel and then will drop mr King and discuss DL. Story wise mine is Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption and scary was Carrie.

Well my absolute fav I suppose was a collection of short stories written by King called nightshift. 

I no-longer have the book, but it had a story along the lines of toy army men and helicopters that creamed a dude in his apartment with a reanimated toy helicopter with a nuclear missle. For some reason it made my skin crawl.

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