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To me, Shakespeare uses the supernatural elements to reveal his character's inner desires and fears.

The supernatural is the natural not yet understood.

And, of course, supernatural elements just make a story more interesting.

When I'm writing books, something weird happens; and the result is the books contain a large amount of what you could call 'supernaturalism.' As a writer, I find I need that to explain the world I'm writing about.

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

The supernatural is ubiquitous in children's entertainment, from Grimm and Hans Andersen to Disney and 'Harry Potter.'

I've always been intrigued by the supernatural.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

I've always been into the horror genre, so I've seen a lot of movies with ghosts and supernatural stuff.

Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life.