professional science fiction and dark fantasy writer
Horror is always either on the edge of a horrendous implosion or on the cusp of a golden renaissance. I think that's about right, given its cyclic nature. Horror literature itself is a fairly shallow field. Widespread, but shallow. It makes half-hearted attempts every ten years or so to break out and become mainstream, but …
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Many years ago I watched an interview with Margaret Mitchell on television. She talked about the process she went through when writing Gone With the Wind and she related how she often had to say no to people who wanted her to go out to a restaurant, or concert, or a party. She said it …
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