![]() ![]() ![]() The implications of those questions have dogged my career ever since my waggish brother mocked up a book jacket for my first novel, The Snowman’s Children, complete with an imaginary blurb from Stephen King proclaiming (a little too accurately), “It’s like To Kill a Mockingbird meets Silence of the Lambs.” ![]() Or, “Why would a real writer ever want or need to write that?” And that question goes something like this: “Horror seems to be gaining a certain amount of literary respectability… What do you think of that trend? Does it make horror a less rebellious genre?”īut what I read, and immediately started to answer, was a related but very different question, one I have been asked a thousand times before: by my teachers by graduate school workshop peers by vaguely concerned Faculty Search Committees ( I mean, he seems pleasant enough, but have you read his stuff?) when I interviewed for jobs even by readers. They sent me a set of provocative queries, including this one: The question came to me from writer-editors Chris Shearer and Tim Waggoner, who had invited me to contribute to a critical work they’re assembling called The Dark Now, due out from Post Mortem Books in 2015. When I first saw the question, I read it wrong. ![]()
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