About the Author:
John Saul has been chilling readers with his tales since the late 1970's. His story formula generally
focuses on adolescent children from struggling or broken homes. The preface of his stories tend
to take place 100 years before in a home or a town when something bad happened, usually to an
adolescent. Then, in the present day, a new family with one or two adolescents moves into that
home or town and terror begins anew. Often there's a tag scene implying that perhaps it could
recur again.
Saul's very sympathetic and believable adolescent characters make for compelling reading. His
almost mythological or cyclical method of storytelling is powerful and addictive.
Personal:
The WriterGroupie vividly remembers the first time she picked up John Saul's "Comes the Blind Fury"
in junior high. The cover image alone of the girl with the white, unseeing eyes is still enough
to give her shivers. The WriterGroupie immediately fell in love with the author and his storytelling
style.
She had the immense pleasure of meeting the man a few years ago at a booksigning and got
to chat with him for several minutes. She found him to be a kind, delightful man and thinks it highly
amusing that some of her favorite dark-imagery horror authors such as Saul or Dean
Koontz are also some of the most gentle, sweet, nice guys you could meet!
Some of the WriterGroupie's favorite books by Saul include: "Comes the Blind Fury", "The God Project",
and "The Blackstone Chronicles".
