There's no purer feeling in the world than being scared.
From Stephen Graham Jones
Some people are born for Halloween, and some are just counting the days until Christmas.
In the fast zombie stories, it's not our humanity that is at stake anymore. It's our survival.
Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
When Ellen Datlow was running the fiction at 'Omni' in the late '80s and into the '90s, I had a subscription. It was one of two subscriptions I'd saved for, the other being 'Spider-Man.' And they each opened my mind and my heart in wonderful ways.
I feel very at home in L.A., I think, because it's dry, and there's sun, like the West Texas I grew up in.
For me, the facts in anything are always secondary. You don't lie convincingly with the truth. You lie convincingly with being a good liar.
I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.
I think America would do anything through a drive-through.
Stories need stupid decisions that, at the time, seem absolutely rational and necessary. Without stupid decisions, the world isn't thrown out of balance, and so there's no need for a 'rest of the story' to balance it back.
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