Now, after 18 years, not a sign of Lovecraft in my work.
From Brian Lumley
If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.
A literary critic is someone who can't write, but who loves to show he would have been a wonderful writer if only he could!
The Army was my bread and butter.
Writers are in the entertainment business, and it gives me lots of pleasure to entertain my readers.
If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
I should think just about every young writer - which I was at the time - would be influenced by HPL. As an American writer of weird fiction, he was at the top of the class.
But other vampire stories? Well, no, I really haven't read too many, and I can't say I'm crazy about romantic vampires anyway - to me the vampire is simply an evil monster.
I have friends who read my books in Greek.
German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.
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