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I've always loved short stories. Even before I was a writer, I was reading short stories - there were certain writers where I just felt like they could do in a short story what so many writers needed a whole novel to do, and that was really inspiring to me.

I have always loved short stories. I have been at least as influenced by the short story masters as I have been by novelists.

I have some other novels I want to write. I have a lot of short stories - I love the short story.

I'm mostly a novelist these days, but I have written short stories in Fantasy, Science Fiction and horror.

I loved ghost stories, creaky staircases, stormy nights. If it guaranteed nightmares I read it by flashlight, after midnight.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

Many of my short stories (all unpublished) were horror, and the novel I'd just finished was horror, too.

Short stories are tiny windows into other worlds and other minds and dreams. They are journeys you can make to the far side of the universe and still be back in time for dinner.

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.