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Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

Bentley Little

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
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 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
I write what I want to write. Period. I don’t write novels-for-hire using media tie-in characters, I don’t write suspense novels or thrillers.
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Book Character Jobs Writing
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
I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.
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Desire Forever Vampire
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
Murder is an inherently evil act, no matter what the circumstances, no matter how convincing the rationalizations.
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Circu Evil Matter Murder Stance
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
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 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
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
I write horror. And if no one wants to buy my books, I’ll just keep writing them until they do sell–and get a job at Taco Bell in the meantime.
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Book Ghost Horror Job Meantime One Read
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
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 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

Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

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