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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 25, 2009 13:30:16 GMT
Anyone knows what happened to Steve Harris? He was a great writer in the 1990s, as anyone who read Hoodoo Man and Angels will know. His last book, Straker's Island was released in 1998. Miami Five-Fifteen never materialised. So...what's happened to him?  |
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Post by funkdooby on Apr 25, 2009 13:40:42 GMT
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Post by steppedonwolf on Apr 26, 2009 16:21:49 GMT
Thanks for those, FD.
Strange for him to vanish off the radar like that. Anyone know if he had some spats with his publishers, or did he do a Bob McCammon and decide to retire?
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Post by funkdooby on Apr 26, 2009 16:53:15 GMT
Thanks for those, FD. Strange for him to vanish off the radar like that. Anyone know if he had some spats with his publishers, or did he do a Bob McCammon and decide to retire? He still writes and is still trying to sell his work...but no one is interested, it seems. I can never understand why writers don't offer their work for sale in e-book format, if you can't get published in the traditional way (which virtually no one in the horror genre can these days). |
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Post by andydecker on Apr 26, 2009 21:32:56 GMT
McCammon is publishing again- But he is doing historical novels and no outright horror.
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Post by vincentstark on Jun 1, 2011 10:25:40 GMT
Steve was a friend of mine back in the day but I lost touch over the years - I know he's given up writing but other than that very little.
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Post by dem bones on Sept 24, 2015 15:34:43 GMT
Really sad to hear that. Thank you for taking the time to let us know. Back before we started this board, I remember enjoying this one, and really should schedule a rematch. Steve Harris - Adventureland (Headline, 1990) Blurb: The funfair's hoarding cries out to the brave and the foolhardy, 'Die a thousand deaths and live to tell the tale!'
During the hottest summer in living memory the AdventureLand funfair comes to town casting its dark shadow before it. At one of the sideshows young Tommy Cousins becomes separated from his mum and dad and vanishes without trace. Tragic, but kids get lost at funfairs all the time.
As the summer scorches on Dave Carter and his girlfriend Sally realise that when AdventureLand arrived it brought more than just safe thrills with it. Something worse than nightmare lies concealed behind the fairground's enticing exterior and it is beginning to break out. When Phil and Judy disappear inside the Ghost Train, Dave starts to ask questions to which there are no answers. He and his friends discover that the evil at the heart of the fairground is spreading.
Only Dave and Sally can stop it but to do so they will have to ride the Ghost Train to the terrifying Limboland that lies beyond the screams and the laughter ...
`A superb book ... Harris's imagination is impressive and breathtaking ... definitely a name to watch for the 90s' -
Starburst
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Post by Deleted on Sept 25, 2015 17:56:03 GMT
That's a real shame, I remember picking up ADVENTURELAND after reading a jolly interview with him in The Dark Side (or was it just a review, I forget) and quite enjoying it. I'm sure I read another of his novels -- the cover of WULF looks familiar -- but can remember nothing about it.
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Post by Steve Green on Oct 4, 2015 22:01:19 GMT
That is rather awful news, Dawn. We carried reviews of several of his novels in Critical Wave (1987-96) and I recall my old Dark Side colleague Stan Nicholls did the same in his 'Prints of Darkness' column. Steve was published by Headline, I recall, which kept quite a few horror careers above the water; you should be able to pick many of them up via eBay and suchlike.
www.ghostwords.co.uk/
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