<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Have we mentioned Chesterton yet? He's not only one of Wolfe's favorites, but they approach their themes in very similar ways, methinks.<br><br>Crowley...with a million exclamation points.<br><br>And I actually think that Steven Erikson is a fine writer. Someone said he was a guilty pleasure, but I tend to think more highly of his style. I've found that if you really pay some attention to his imagery and how the interconnected scenes are constructed, there's a real strong sense of craftsmanship where he tries to do a lot of nice things with mirroring, contrasts, etc. The actual sentences aren't particularly special, but I think it's pretty thoughtful stuff.<br><br>Ted Sturgeon's short stories. Kelly Link's short stories have a sense of the weird that I find similar to Wolfe's.<br><br>Jeff Vandermeer's _City of Saints and Madmen_
and M. John Harrison's _Viriconium_ stories are also comfortable relatives, I'd say.<br></div></body></html>