It would be difficult to write a convincing ghost story set on a sunny day in a big city.
From Susan Hill
The New Testament is about loving other people as you love yourself. That means caring for them and looking after them and being kind to them.
Though they don't always have to be set in fog, weather is incredibly important in ghost stories. As is suspense: you've got to turn the screw very, very slowly.
Flashback in film rarely works.
Kindness is a sort of love without being love.
Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.
I don't really do jolly. I don't know why, I just don't.
I've never written poetry. I'm not a poet, but I think the nearest you get is either the short story or the novella, in that you can't waste a word. There is no hiding place: everything's got to be seen to relate, and the prose counts.
I wrote ghost stories because I'd always enjoyed reading them, and they seemed to be fizzling out... I don't take them terribly seriously. It's like a cake, with ingredients.
I'm not one of those people who hates Amazon because they're big. Why pay a third more for the same thing?
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