EC Comics and The Forbidden Zone

In the Whitley Strieber Gary Lachman interview I'm listening to, Whit mentions how EC Comics got him into Lovecraft and how the challenge of writing a novel-length Lovecraft story is what led to his writing his novel The Forbidden Zone.

It was just yesterday that I learned of the existence of EC Comics. One of the chapters in The Heebie-Jeebies at CBGB's begins with a quote from Jewish writer Neil Gaiman saying (quoting from memory and possibly paraphrasing slightly), "Something something EC Comics something post-Holocaust something something." Such was my ignorance that I at first thought it might be a typo for DC Comics.

In the middle of reading The Heebie-Jeebies, I took a break to read The Cryptoterrestrials by Mac Tonnies. The Forbidden Zone is pretty obscure as Strieber novels go, but Tonnies singles it out for special mention.

I've only read The Forbidden Zone once, in 2004, and didn't think it was very good. I may give it another chance.