Fans of his books paid tribute to the indelible mark they left on the readers' psyche.

CNN: UK bids farewell to chiller writer James Herbert

It takes weeks to read, weighs as much as a Sunday roast and might do real harm if thrown from a moving vehicle or hurled (as impatient readers may wish to do around the 700-page mark) willy-nilly from an upper-storey window.

ECONOMIST: New fiction

Our story on Cintas, by Mark Tatge and Miriam Gottfried, drew a strong response both from readers and Cintas employees.

FORBES: Magazine Article

This provoked a barrage of correspondence from readers, all of which was perfectly correlated in agreeing that both our article and the letter were off the mark.

ECONOMIST: Unscrambling correlation

At the pace Wink's signing up new readers, Clermont expects to have a base of 150, 000 subscribers by its first anniversary--an impressive mark, even by Time Inc. standards.

FORBES: On A Wink And A Prayer