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Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can–plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

Bentley Little

Like most authors, I’m a raging egomaniac. I know that about myself. And I know that, if I had internet access,
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Access Frustration Internet Writing
Life is short. Eternity is long.
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Eternity Life Short
Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can–plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.
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Novelists Real Writing
I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror.
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Concerned Downtown Horror Rather Respect Thriller
Real life was messier than fiction, and in it you didn’t always have time to do or say the right things.
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Fiction Life Real Right
Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there are all those terrible jobs on my resume!
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Finally Later Resume Two
The Revelation was my master’s project, and after I finished it, I thought I’d send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer.
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Jobs Publishment Two Years
I write horror because I enjoy it. I’m endlessly fascinated by the supernatural, by death, by darkness. And, to be honest, I don’t have much choice. This is the way my mind works.
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Choices Darkness Writing
There’s always been a need for horror fiction, though – ghost stories have been a staple of every human society since the beginning of recorded literature – and while commercially the field may have its ups and downs, it will never go away.
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Bible Book Fiction Ghost Hell Horror Stories
I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough.
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Fighting Real Thinking
I think the internet is a great marketing tool–but marketing is not my job. I’m a writer. My job is to write novels.
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Jobs Thinking Writing
An enigma? That’s not a bad persona to have. I should probably shut up and let the mystery continue! It’s good for my career.
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Career Mystery Probably Shut
If there’s any mystery to me at all, it’s probably due to the fact that I’m not online and don’t go to conventions–which means that I’m probably not as accessible to fans as most writers are these days. If that makes me seem like a weird recluse, so be it.
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Facts Fans Mean Online
There were shadows galore in the dim light, but there was one shadow that did not correspond to any object in the room. It lurked next to the fireplace, a formless, undulating darkness.
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Darkness Light Shadow
Real life … it was an ambiguous world, where actions sometimes had no meaning, where chaos reigned and no one was allowed to see the big picture, only their small portion of it.
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Ambiguous Life Real Sometimes World
It helps readers identify with their problems. It also helps ground the supernatural events that follow in a recognizable reality and perhaps gives some of my wilder scenarios a little verisimilitude.
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Ground Help Identity Some Gap Verisimilitude

Horror writers can write about everything in the real world that a mainstream novelist can–plus the supernatural, which is the most fertile field for metaphor imaginable.

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