I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Others, amounting to four novels and a mess of short stories which I did not think worth preserving, I have done my best to eliminate from the record by refusing all requests for permission to reprint them, and I hope I have done a good job of making them hard to unearth.
Who has ownership over stories these days?
My first book was a car crash. I tried to find all the copies and destroy them.
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing. I thought it was about the music.
I don't keep any copies of my books in the house - they go to my mum's flat. I don't like them around.
Behind every locked door on Skid Road are a thousand stories.
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
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I've got five or six unpublished stories kicking around looking for somebody to buy them.