Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.
I'm a fan of short horror fiction... in fact, the most memorable horror I've read is of the short variety... but I have a hard time pulling it off myself.
I spent years only ever reading horror and then trying to write horror - and deep down, a horror writer is still what I'd love to be. But it wasn't until I started writing crime that things began to work for me.
I don't like to talk about work in progress, but the novel I'm working on now is definitely not horror.
So, I outlined a horror novel and started writing.
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
I have always loved horror very much. I used to write stories for DC's House of Mystery. It was one of my first jobs writing for comics, and I loved it.
I've wanted to write a ghost story for years, and my main aim was to write the most frightening ghost story that I could think of.
I don't write that much horror. People tell me my books are scary, but they're not really; I don't go there.
I wrote my first five horror novels while I was teaching.