Gustavo Hern Hern من عند Saliyana, Uttarakhand, الهند من عند Saliyana, Uttarakhand, الهند

This was the first book I ever read that let people in the everyday world interact with the freaky creatures I loved in fantasy novels. It made me enormously excited, in that maaaan, I wish I could have written that kind of way, and it still stands up on re-reading.