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The ‘experimental’ writer, then, is simply following the story’s commands to the best of his human ability. The writer is not the story, the story is ...more

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The sinister, the terrible never deceive: the state in which they leave us is always one of enlightenment. And only this condition of vicious insight ...more

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Best-selling horror fiction is indeed necessarily conservative because it must entertain a large number of readers. It’s like network television. I’m ...more

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To Eden with me you will not leaveTo live in a cottage of crazy, crooked eaves.In your own happy home you take care these nights; When you let your li...more

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When I first read Lovecraft around 1971, and even more so when I began to read about his life, I immediately knew that I wanted to write horror storie...more

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Forsake the world and cling to the shadows.

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No more worlds like this / No more days like that

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Life is a nightmare that leaves its mark upon you in order to prove that it is, in fact, real.

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And one thing we know is real: horror. It is so real, in fact, that we cannot be sure it could not exist without us. Yes, it needs our imaginations an...more

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Compassion for human hurt, a humble sense of our impermanence, an absolute valuation of justice—all of our so-called virtues only trouble us and serve...more

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Compassion for human hurt, a humble sense of our impermanence, an absolute valuation of justice—all of our so-called virtues only trouble us and serve...more

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Once and for all, let us speak the paradox aloud: "We have been force-fed for so long the shudders of a thousand graveyards that at last, seeking a ma...more

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As survivors and procreators, we unravel stories that at their root are not dissimilar from the habitual behaviors seen in nature. But as beings who k...more

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This, then, is the ultimate, that is only, consolation: simply that someone shares some of your own feelings and has made of these a work of art which...more

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It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that much of the sky was the pr...more