I find your appraisal of my work very astute: it agrees with mine. PRINCESS PAMELA is my own favorite among my own work, too, a real labor of love. And yes, PRINCE OF DARKNESS is indeed a weak collection, containing too many efforts from the early days of my career, and too few stories of the first rank (but I like the anti-advertising short-short, THE ROOM, which has been reprinted many times, and once appeared on West German television) […] Your description of INCUBUS and its uneasy mixed-genre balancing is quite accurate, I think. Commercially, it has been my most successful novel to date, by far outselling any of the others and reaping a very large film sale […]” (a. d. Br. v. 26. März). – Jeweils auf Briefpapier mit gedr. Briefkopf..