Mapping the Interior<\/strong> Whitley Strieber\u2019s The Wolfen. Those parts in the voice of the father-wolf, they changed me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ll keep it halfway recent. Grady Hendrix\u2019s My Best Friend\u2019s Exorcism, Gemma Files\u2019 Experimental Film, and Christopher Buehlman\u2019s Those Across the River.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, the slasher. I think it\u2019s the most pure story there is. Not just in horror, but anywhere. Story is about change, and the slasher you always see, very clearly, a final girl going from one state to another. It\u2019s beautiful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jack Ketchum\u2019s The Girl Next Door.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Lisey\u2019s Story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Karen Runge. Her Seven Sins story collection is pretty intense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If only Deathgasm has been a novel first. But . . . I\u2019m going to go with Kubrick\u2019s The Shining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bracken Macleod\u2019s Stranded. It\u2019d feel like John Carpenter\u2019s The Thing, part 2. All this snow, all this death, all dudes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Supernatural. I think it\u2019s held together better than any other television show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean, King’s obviously the king, here. Really, when I first started seeing his books? I had a sense that that was a name he’d earned, or been awarded, not born with. I was maybe ten. And I’d say Shirley Jackson’s the reining queen, even though she’s not around. her books are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeah, I do science fiction and fantasy and what people call literary. Flash fiction. Comic books. I like romantic comedy builds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first novel I wrote was my dissertation. One of my doctoral committee members offered to publish it\u2014he was a publisher\u2014but I took it to NYC, got all the necessary rejections, then came back to that publisher, asked was he still game. He was.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They go with me from shelf to shelf, and into experimental areas, commercial spaces, but they\u2019re always there. They\u2019re wonderful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Why do you think that is? People suspect that if they ratify horror then they\u2019re also ratifying everything that goes on in horror. And there\u2019s some transgressive, dark, bloody stuff. So people shy away, they call it names, they look down their nose at it. But they sneak the books home, too. It\u2019s good to be scared. It\u2019s necessary to be scared. It lets us feel alive. No, horror will never be respected, but it\u2019ll always get bought.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I mean, yeah, but I don\u2019t think it\u2019s dragging or anything, either. Horror has its different trends, that fall hard and public\u2014vampires, torture porn\u2014but it never stays down for long. It\u2019s always surging back. You can\u2019t keep a good monster down, and horror\u2019s made of monstrous things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Avoid words like \u2018eerie\u2019 and \u2018gross.\u2019 All they do is say out loud what your writing should be accomplishing. If you have to say \u2018gross\u2019 or \u2018eerie\u2019 or any from that class, then you\u2019re admitting that your writing has failed to get anything \u2018eerie\u2019 or \u2018gross\u2019 onto the page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For sure. It\u2019s all around.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Human bodies with dog heads. And that people go hungry, and other people seem to think those who go hungry deserve to go hungry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYour Final Notice\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Always and forever, times two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tell us about your latest book Mapping the InteriorMapping the Interior is a horror novella. Couple kids and a mom trying to make it, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":559,"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/558\/revisions\/559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lounge-books.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Mapping the Interior is a horror novella. Couple kids and a mom trying to make it, but the dead dad won\u2019t let them be.<\/p>\n\n\n\nFirst memory of reading horror<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
For readers new to horror which 3 books would you recommend they start with?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you have a favourite horror sub-genre, and why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Most terrifying book you\u2019ve ever read.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Your favourite Stephen King book.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
New horror authors you\u2019d recommend.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Your favourite horror film (adapted from a book) & why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Horror book that you\u2019d like to see adapted to film & why?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Best horror TV?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Who do you consider King and Queen of Horror?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Did you write in other genres or straight to horror?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tell us briefly about your route to being published.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tell us about your fans.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Horror doesn\u2019t seem to be as well respected as other genres of fiction.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you think horror is ready for a renaissance?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Tips for new writers of horror fiction.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you believe in evil?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
What scares you?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
3 most scary words in English language?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Do you celebrate Halloween?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n