I had always been hooked on Horror film and TV. I loved weird music, but wasn't much of a reader until I turned 14. I was finishing my freshman year at an all-boys Catholic high school and flunking most of my classes - including English. Naturally, I was fascinated with Hell and the totures of the damned so one day I stopped by the Science Fiction Shop (in NYC) and found a copy of this ...
It wasn't what I was hoping for, but then again it didn't have to be.
The first story was Yours Truly Jack the Ripper.
Robert Bloch will always be my first love in Horror fiction.
Once I started reading him, I couldn't get enough.
It has been that way ever since.