Mystery Walk (1983) – first novel published in hardcover.The Night Boat (1980) - third published novel, but actually second written.Bethany's Sin (1980) - second published novel, but actually third written.In a 2013 interview, McCammon acknowledged that some readers would like to have a complete collection of his work, and said "reading back over those books I find they’re not as poorly written as I recall them to be." They have also all been released as ebooks and audiobooks. However, Baal, Bethany's Sin, The Night Boat, and They Thirst were re-released by Subterranean Press as limited edition novels. He wrote that he feels he was allowed to learn how to write in public, and therefore had decided to officially retire his earlier works.
Like Dean Koontz, McCammon for a while refused to let his first novels (up to and including They Thirst) be republished because, while not disliking the books, he did not feel that they were up to the standards of his later works. In 1985, McCammon's story "Nightcrawlers" was adapted into an episode of The Twilight Zone (1985). Publishers Weekly called it a "compulsively readable yarn," and said, "McCammon's loyal fans will find his resurfacing reason to rejoice." Since 2002, fourteen new books have been published, including eight, so far, in the Matthew Corbett series. After a long hiatus which resulted from the reorganization of the publishing industry and McCammon's personal depression and soul searching, he returned to the publishing world with Speaks the Nightbird, the first book in the Matthew Corbett series. After clashing with an editor at a new publisher over the direction for his historical fiction novel Speaks the Nightbird, he retired from writing. After the release of Gone South, McCammon chose to leave his publisher. McCammon has published multiple award-winning books, including Mine in 1990 and Boy's Life in 1991.
He has a daughter, Skye, with his former wife, Sally Sanders.
in Journalism from the University of Alabama in 1974. After his parents' divorce, McCammon lived with his grandparents in Birmingham. His parents are Jack, a musician, and Barbara Bundy McCammon. Since 2002 he’s written several books in a historical mystery series featuring a 17th-century magistrate’s clerk, Matthew Corbett, as he unravels mysteries in colonial America. One of the influential names in the late 1970s–early 1990s American horror literature boom, by 1991 McCammon had three New York Times bestsellers ( The Wolf's Hour, Stinger, and Swan Song) and around 5 million books in print. Robert Rick McCammon (born July 17, 1952) is an American novelist from Birmingham, Alabama.
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