Floating Dragon by Peter Straub is $1.99 at Amazon US. I'd highly recommend picking it up. Aside from King, Straub was my favorite horror author. Floating Dragon is maybe overly ambitious, with a sentient(?) chemical fog
and an ancient supernatural evil threatening the little town of Hampstead.
Straub admired 'Salem's Lot and the way King involved a whole town in his horror story, so Straub took a crack at it twice, with Ghost Story and Floating Dragon being the results. Both are well worth a horror fan's attention.
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The quiet suburban town of Hampstead is threatened by two horrors. One is natural. The hideous unstoppable creation of man’s power gone mad. The other is not natural at all. And it makes the first look like child’s play...
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