"Anthony Shriek is much more than a good horror novel. It's said that a good novel should make you laugh, make you cry or make you think, a great novel will do all three. But Anthony Shriek is also a poignant tale of pain, loneliness and the madness that may come with isolation from one's fellows. It's said that we make our own monsters and our own hells and this is certainly true of the tormented artist in this book... Ms Salmonson writes: "In writing of Anthony's dark journey I had two subsidiary goals I hoped would lend the tale greater depth than the average horror novel. One was mystic, to recast a gnostic tale of the error-ridden Creator, alongside the attempted rescue of the Creator by the fallen Sophia. The other was to make Seattle and the last days of the punk era seem comparable to the dark, damp decadence of Gustav Meyrink's Prague in Der Golem. I additionally hoped for, and believe I achieved, something that is as tragic as it is horrific, so that readers might wish these characters better fates, and weep for them""-- http://www.centipedepress.com/horror/anthonyshriek.html (as viewed on May 30, 2017.)