 The opening of "Knock" is a complete two-sentence short-short story in itself.Brown was one of three dedicatees of Robert A. Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" (the other two being Robert Cornog and Philip José Farmer).In his non-fiction book "Danse Macabre" (1981), a survey of the horror genre since 1950, writer Stephen King includes an appendix of "roughly one hundred" influential books of the period