But only in the light of last Saturday's melon quandary have I felt ready to share them with the general public. I trust that all who want to learn how to pick out a good horror book are on board with me at this point, and all who want to learn about honeydews have gone elsewhere. The first step in picking out a horror book is finding out where the horror books grow. You can't just wander out into any old place and expect to find horror books. This is true.
Horror books DO grow almost everywhere.
And you can make some outstanding, even thrilling, discoveries in these unlikely places. I discovered T. E. D. Klein, for example, in the paperback rack of a seedy chain drugstore in Little Rock, Arkansas. The deliciously peculiar in the midst of the grotesquely ordinary, in other words. But don't let me mislead you with this little brag of mine about where I found T. E. D. Klein. You'll do better going to a quality bookstore.