Every time I lock my people in a spacecraft or land them on an asteroid, the blood wells up again, and I'm writing horror. Horror's my default setting. It's also where I prefer to write.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Although I've said a million times that I'm not a horror writer, I do like horror.
It takes a lot of adrenaline and fear to make me actually write.
I am, after all, a thriller writer. I routinely delve into the darkest chambers of the human heart. I've written about murder, kidnapping, depravity, horror, violence, and disfigurement.
If you're trying to write about very strong horror, very strong fear or very strong emotion, it's easy to overwrite it.
I haven't done lots of horror.
What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park.
I hate violence, and I didn't plan to write horror; it just poured out of me.
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'm a huge fan of science fiction and fantasy - not so much horror because I get a bit scared.